Sentence examples for he first assumed from inspiring English sources

When he first assumed the captaincy, it seemed that the position enhanced his scoring credentials rather than diminished them.

When he first assumed the papacy, Francis made a series of what appeared to be stylistic changes.

Immigration-reform advocate David Leopold said he first assumed, when a friend sent him the photos, that it was an altered photo intended to be a joke.

Mr. Trump has spoken generously of Mr. Kim in recent days, noting that he survived the treacherous political circles in Pyongyang after he first assumed power as a young man.

When he came to, he later wrote, he first assumed he must have died, but then he spotted the parachute's canopy above him and made a sudden realization: "I am impossibly, wonderfully alive".

For the Kremlin, he was a source of abiding annoyance, an oligarch who refused to play by the rules laid down by Mr. Putin when he first assumed the presidency in 2000, and who paid for his obstreperousness by losing his access to the font of Kremlin-approved riches that sustained those who accepted the new order.

It was then he realized that perhaps size was a much larger issue than he'd first assumed.

He had first assumed it as a conscious imposture; it had become habitual to him; the antiquated, worldly-wise moralities which, using that voice, he had found himself obliged to utter, had become his settled opinions.

Mr. Hyman added that he had first assumed that the stability was because of a mostly elderly population, but that "the biggest surprise to me was there's a lot of kids around".

He at first assumed that the duo wanted electronic drum work, since Hakim had done some drum programming in his career.

All too soon he has become "an admiring acolyte... in the perseverance of grief". Similarly, on the day when Mary summons Dennis to tell him about Eva, he at first assumes that Mary, with whom he has had his own dalliance, is about to tell him she is pregnant.