Sentence examples for he assumed a position from inspiring English sources

Maximilien Robespierre was one of the few deputies who remained, and he assumed a position of prominence in the club.

In 2016, he assumed a position as an assistant professor of Osaka University, and he moved to his current position at Panasonic in fall.

Thereafter he assumed a position of constructive opposition to de Gaulle's domestic policy while continuing to serve as a deputy and as mayor of Arras.

In 1654 he assumed a position as court painter that had traditionally been given to members of the Tosa family but had been vacant since the end of the Muromachi period (1338 1573).

Viewed as the most notorious Indian since Sitting Bull, he assumed a position of de facto leadership that often put him at odds with his fellow activists, as well as with the authorities.

He served as chief executive officer and president of Godfather's until 1996, when he assumed a parallel position with the National Restaurant Association.

In 1926, after much back and forth, he assumed a teaching position in "natural philosophy" at the University of Berlin, where he remained until Hitler came to power in 1933.

But the initial videotape also incorporated critical information for which there was neither eyewitness testimony nor forensic evidence: Whether a beer bottle Artie Mitchell carried as he walked down a darkened hallway was pointed like a pistol, and whether he assumed a shooting position with the bottle just before his brother fired at him.

Once elected a member of Parliament in June 1848, however, he assumed an intermediate position between the conservatives and the revolutionaries, thus calling forth the enmity of both left and right.

Later, however, in his principal work, Libri tres contra Nestorianos et Eutychianos ("Three Books Against the Nestorians and the Eutychians"), he assumed a moderate, orthodox position, having been influenced by the leading Nestorian adversary, Cyril of Alexandria.

At first sharply resisting the new Soviet state's antiecclesiastical legislation, he refused to cooperate with a schismatic, state-supported, and politically oriented element of the clergy known as the "Living Church," but later, seeking a mitigation of government repression, he assumed a more flexible position.