Sentence examples for has assumed for from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Neeleman said he expected a lengthy confrontation here, because of the significance that Philadelphia has assumed for all involved.

Because Christianity is a monotheistic religion, the monotheistic conception of the divine has assumed for Western culture the value of a self-evident axiom.

One problem: he is not willing to give up the general manager role he has assumed for himself, and that's a problem.

And this commentator role he has assumed for himself is sort of admirable in that he writes with such confidence and conviction from a position that very few intellectual contemporaries would be able to take up.

The rest of the track outlines a relationship that Ocean — or the character he has assumed for narrative purposes — has with a woman he meets at the rock festival Coachella.

For Mr. Clinton, who has become one of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party, the speech will be among the most high-profile roles yet that he has assumed for Mr. Obama.

Developers, public officials and community leaders have assumed for weeks that the redevelopment project for Lower Manhattan would incorporate the Liberty Street parcel on which the bank stands.

She had assumed, for example, that a weak economy would have an effect on procedures and drugs associated with cosmetic surgery, like Botox.

Investors had assumed for months that the Fed would announce a quarter-point rate increase on Wednesday, at the end of its two-day policy meeting.

But they found something worse: much of what the locals had assumed for more than a century was merlot was in fact carmenère.

My wife, who worked full time and is now employed part time, is more than happy to abrogate the domestic responsibilities she had assumed for so long.