Sentence examples for assumed major from inspiring English sources

Three more seasoned singers assumed major roles.

In the industrial and technological revolutions, separations and purifications have assumed major importance.

Since the 1960s, robots have assumed major roles in industrial manufacturing and assembly, the remote detonation of explosives, search and rescue, and academic research.

The Postclassic Period as a whole has also been distinguished from the Classic on the basis of assumed major changes in Meso-American political, economic, and social institutions.

Scottish ministers lost nearly £400m in capital spending after the Office of National Statistics ruled they had wrongly assumed major new privately-financed roads and hospital projects would not go on the public books.

Professional basketball assumed major league status with the organization of the new Basketball Association of America BAAA) in 1946 under the guidance of Walter A. Brown, president of the Boston Garden.

Sinatra's relationship with Ava Gardner assumes major mythic status.

While declining to assume major responsibilities, Johnston used his authority for one innovation that ultimately proved catastrophic.

McGrady, Rodriguez and Eddie House are assuming major roles, while the Knicks' young prospects, Wilson Chandler and Danilo Gallinari, are shrinking from view.

[C1.] Financial Firms Set to Assume Major Role in Health Care Banks, credit unions and money management firms are quietly positioning themselves to become central players in the business of health care, through health savings accounts.

Nixon, beginning the long process of extricating our forces from Vietnam, stopped off at the island of Guam in 1969 to say that in the future, the United States, while helping, would require its allies to assume major responsibility in manpower and money for their own defense.