Sentence examples for his assuming from inspiring English sources

This pressure was problematic, according to Wenger, because it led to his assuming responsibility for Arsenal's trophy drought.

Within a year of his assuming the presidency, he filed suit against J. P. Morgan to prevent a merger that would have created a single western railroad.

His unprompted weekly meetings with the skill-position players in recent seasons have provided an example of his assuming of that role.

McGrady has achieved his current stature with two elements: his performance with the basketball and his assuming a true leadership that befits a superstar.

Incoming dean Francis J. Doyle III will serve as the inaugural John A. Paulson Dean of SEAS, in addition to his assuming the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professorship of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

And the graveyard scene moves from Hamlet's having an inspired vaudevillian dialogue with Yorick's skull to his assuming a serene martial attitude that speaks eloquently of a new maturity.

(His assumed name, al-Masri, means "the Egyptian" in Arabic).

Ty is often more himself as Joe, his assumed persona.

Yet for all his assumed modesty, his statistical achievements cannot be denied.

The following year an inquest was held into his assumed death.

He trailed off, his face assuming his trademark look of disgust with the establishment.