Amid the mass movement to bring democracy to a city under Chinese rule, the eighteen-year-old student at the Hong Kong Design Institute had assumed the task of guarding protesters against rain, tear gas, and heatstroke.
Ever since his own work had taken its slight and necessary turn, its odd, unaccountable swerve away from classic smallness toward another, more dubious realm, his two apprentices had assumed the task of supplying furniture for the King's toy palace.
When he finally spotted it, Schlueter discovered that the precinct captain who was supposed to be in charge hadn't turned up and that "some lady" — a fellow voter — had assumed the task of checking IDs of others who crowded around the table.
With an almost religious fervor, the Brooklyn native and ex-engineering professor has assumed the task of chief propagator of what he calls "historic" apples at the three-acre Living Tree Center nursery in Bolinas, about 30 miles north of San Francisco.
As the eldest, Brenda has assumed the daunting task of heading the household, a responsibility that has forced her to drop out of school.
He has assumed the name Brother Cephalopode.
He has assumed the name Abdul-Rahman.
Goldman Sachs has assumed the northwest.
Kevin Jepsen has assumed the ninth-inning role.
Following Donald Davidson in broad outlines, Lewis held that the contents of a person's mental states are those contents that a radical interpreter would interpret them as having, assuming the interpreter went about their task in the right way.
