The phrase "assumed the point" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could be used in discussions about arguments or positions taken in a debate or analysis, but it would need additional context to clarify its meaning.
Example: "In the discussion, she assumed the point that the policy would benefit the community."
Alternatives: "took the position" or "adopted the stance".
Jason Hernandez, a senior who started at shooting guard last season alongside Claxton and has now assumed the point guard role, said: "Everybody stepped up.
Berntsen has had a particularly strong start to her season as she has assumed the point guard role after the graduation of Blake Dietrick '15, last year's unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year.
Yorke once gave wild voice to the dispossessed ("I'm not here, this isn't happening," he moans on "How To Disappear Completely," from "Kid A," a lyric so suffused with grief it's hard not to press your hands over your ears), but now he's assumed the point of view of the autocrat, the bully: "Avoid all eye contact, do not react, shoot the messengers".
"Advocates for holistic risk assessments assumed the point to be that you can make a stronger case for reducing pollutant X if you see it in context of all the other things also adding to the burden of disease Y but this report turns that logic on its head and says essentially that when you see the whole picture, you see a reason to ignore the pollutant and work on the other things," he explains.
Hamlin's Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano was second, followed by Gordon, Newman and Martin Truex Jr. Jimmie Johnson, the four-time defending series champion, finished ninth and assumed the points lead by 14 over Kenseth.
Most of the film, though, assumes the point of view of the Miami relatives.
Assuming the point to have been properly raised below, which is by no means clear, it is without merit.
This case assumes the point of view of the US State Department and reviews a series of diplomatic tactics, and ambassadorial strategies, meant to influence the Guatemalan government.
It also became urgent in the U.S., and, because the leaky border here is between Mexico and Texas, I chose a Texas senator to assume the point of view.
Then, assuming the point is open upon these pleadings, there was no evidence that the defendant, or any person for whose acts he would be responsible, was engaged in lowering the barrel of flour.
The achievement gap assumes the point is upward mobility -- how to give poor people, especially racial minorities, resources and remediation so that they can make it in a hypercompetitive, individualist, meritocratic educational system and society.
