Sentence examples for before assuming office from inspiring English sources

It's me," he said, just before assuming office.

The actual instrument of recall is usually a letter of resignation signed by the elected representative before assuming office.

"In the age of digital revolution, one cannot live or govern in a quarantine," he told Chelcheragh, a popular youth magazine, before assuming office.

President Obama campaigned against the use of torture, but even before assuming office, he dismissed the possibility of investigating senior officials who authorized it.

Even the city's current leader, Leung Chun-ying, made his money in property and took millions of pounds in undeclared payments just before assuming office to serve "the needs" of a foreign firm.

Every President is surprised, at the beginning of his term, at how difficult it is to move legislation through Congress, but Donald Trump seems not to have known even the most rudimentary facts about the legislative system before assuming office.

As you can see from this piece I wrote back in early December of 2008, he announced the pledge as president-elect, before even assuming office.

Stanley, on the other hand, deprecated his inexperienced followers as a reason for not assuming office, "These are not names I can put before the Queen".

Since assuming office, gays have criticised him for forgetting them.

Obama would make history by simply assuming office.

Upon assuming office, Ford inherited Nixon's cabinet.