Sentence examples for assumed its role from inspiring English sources

By the 17th century, foie gras had assumed its role in gastronomy, and pâtés and mousses emerged.

Such thoughts were in keeping with the times, for the Great War had already assumed its role as his generation's nightmare.

After serving as an army barracks at the end of Greece's war for independence (1821 32), the Parthenon assumed its role as tourist destination during the late 19th century, just as restoration efforts began.

By the end of the fighting, the Chinese state had regained the sovereignty it had lost in 1842 with the Treaty of Nanjing and assumed its role as one of the Big Four powers that would shape the postwar world.

With Britain's victory in the Opium Wars of 1839-1842 and 1856-1860, opium assumed its role as a cornerstone of Chinese social life alongside tobacco and tea, to be enjoyed with friends, with a rich material culture and its own customs, tools and traditions.

The group assumed its role on 30 July, and had the initial jurisdiction of all Dutch territory in the area, along with British North Borneo and Sarawak.

Mr Barroso was expected to win, which is just as well since a "no" would plunge the Union into crisis.There is only one flaw in this rosy vision of a parliament growing in power and confidence as it assumes its role at the centre of a supranational democracy.

As demonstrated clearly in this study, HIF-1 α was seen to translocate from cytoplasm to nucleus where it assumes its role as a transcription factor.

Whatever we focus on, it bulges in the heat of our attention until we assume its role in our life as a whole is greater than it is.

It was repeatedly suppressed by the tsar's police, reappearing each time with a different name, until it finally emerged in Moscow in 1918 to assume its role as the official party paper.

— British Prime Minister David Cameron "France has decided to assume its role, its role before history".