The presence progressively assumes a form, until a bright-eyed ferretlike creature with wings appears.
After a further molt the animal assumes a form very similar to that of the adult.
During this Golden Age in Spain, the theatre assumed a form more flexible than that of the Italian or French stages.
The bus's five young occupants emerged and inflated nine large balloons, which assumed a form both festive and esoteric -- billowing, multicolored pie charts and bar graphs representing federal spending.
Not that there is anything good, morally, about these political snuff films, which are now spread across the web so quickly as to assume a form of violent hardcore porn.
It didn't take long for her to confirm that the flashing was not, as most people assumed, a form of bioluminescence – a chemical reaction inside animals like plankton that produces light similar to that of a glow stick.
An older and probably more-wealthy senatorial class, or aristocracy, in the West consolidated its great estates and assumed a form of protection or patronage over the labouring rural classes, depriving the state of desperately needed military and financial services.
So far, the virus has not assumed a form that passes easily between humans.
DRM is starting, thank god, to assume a form that isn't instinctively abhorrent to even to the most seasoned of internet users.
Another big pandemic could be in the works if the highly virulent H5N1 avian flu, which killed at least 24 people in Asia last winter, assumes a form that can be transmitted from person to person.
This question is writ large in the level of discontent in the country, which often assumes a form of civil disobedience.
