Sentence examples for before assuming power from inspiring English sources

Before assuming power, Kim involved himself in a brazen military operation that provided a preview of his tolerance for risk, according to U.S. intelligence.

In the summer of 2013 – almost 18 months before assuming power – he was "our big hope, the big promise of better days".

PAGE A12 Politics Obama Pushes for Support Of Economic Recovery Plan Two weeks before assuming power, President-elect Barack Obama pitched his economic recovery package to Congressional lawmakers and urged them to pass the legislation within a month.

His message – itself without precedent given his status as a president-elect commenting on an international incident before assuming power – was likely to worsen fears of increased US-China tensions under his presidency that have grown over his rhetoric on trade and policy towards Taiwan.

This was definitely how Aquino framed himself before and upon assuming power in 2010, vowing to end a decade of democratic reversals.

In time we may come to see the disastrous timing of a rightwing presidency intent on asserting US unilateralism assuming power shortly before September 11: that tragic catastrophe has provided the moral mandate at home and the freedom for manoeuvre from allies for such a unilateralist policy.

Hitler fatally wounded its spirit after assuming power, in 1933.

Resistance to home foreclosures was a rallying cry of the leftist leader before he assumed power in January 2015.

Mr. Chalabi was born into a prominent and wealthy Iraqi Shiite family in Baghdad, but left in 1956, years before Saddam Hussein assumed power.

Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to one charge of lying to the FBI, regarding conversations he had with the then Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, after Trump's election victory last November and before he assumed power in January.

Xi Jinping cannot even claim credit for Bo Xilai's high-profile implosion, since his downfall started before Mr Xi assumed power.