Sentence examples for assuming a position from inspiring English sources

It's telling that in the wake of Brexit's victory Farage has, rather than assuming a position of leadership, found himself stoking populist flames elsewhere.

In each case, the man, assuming a position of intellectual superiority, establishes himself as the woman's tutor-lover, only to lose her once she grows confident enough to leave him.

Key decisions will not be made until the summer, but a line-up for the nine-person Standing Committee is slowly jelling, with Mr. Bo given almost no chance of assuming a position on it.

She was educated at home and grew up doing the work of the Salvation Army, assuming a position of responsibility in the Marylebone district of London at age 17.

No teacher is in a position to say whether midsummer green is a many-voiced song, at least not without assuming a position of absurd literality, and so Fritz's evocation of the teacher's corrective power is a way of revealing its limits.

Boies Schiller also tried to get the case dismissed "in violation of their duty of candor to the court by intentionally lying to the court, or at a minimum, assuming a position of willful ignorance regarding [evidence destruction] and perjury, both of which would have been confirmed by the exercise by Boies Schiller of even minimal due diligence," said the motion.

This profile suggests a very large older population that went through a relatively recent bottleneck approximately 10,000 years ago (assuming a position-wise mutation rate of 2.5 × 10−8 per generation, generation time = 1 year) followed by a modest expansion in recent history.

"For me, it's quite clear art cannot assume a position of critical distance any more.

"They said they wouldn't leave and assumed a position to shoot.

Mr. Packer said he would "assume a position, and dig in".

With one stroke, the inconspicuous outsider assumes a position of supremacy, on a battlefield of pure good against pure evil.