Sentence examples for had just assumed from inspiring English sources

The last emperor of China had just assumed his throne.

"I had just assumed as a longtime employee of DC that it would have been in the warehouse," he said.

General McChrystal had just assumed command of the International Security Assistance Force, the combined NATO and American presence in Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Dole had just assumed the mantle of Senate majority leader, after the Republican landslide of 1994, when he confronted a problem.

For animals with narrow, delicate jaws, like the fish-eating Indian gharial, he said, "everybody had just assumed they had really low bite forces".

In April 2004, the Sun-Times' publisher (who had just assumed his duties in late autumn 2003) discovered that the Sun-Times had been inflating its circulation numbers through various practices.

Mr. Davis has just assumed the presidency of the Democratic Governors Associationn.

When the letters stopped coming, they must have just assumed they'd had their lot from the NHS.

While Poland is not a member of the euro zone, it has just assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union.

And 44 years after her home imprisonment, she has just assumed one of Britain's most distinguished roles, as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford.

The culture at Borders is such that the managers involved would have just assumed we wouldn't do something like that.