Sentence examples for it has assumed from inspiring English sources
So, if you hang a medal around the neck of a chameleon, are you honoring the animal's capacity for flexibility, for channeling the currents of its times, or for the colors it has assumed against its most recent background?
For years, the nutrition movement in this country has made transparency one of its principal goals: it has assumed that the best way to help people improve their diets is to tell them precisely what's in their food, to label certain foods good and certain foods bad.
Scenes from a recurring nightmare: families gathered in an enormous yard, ignorant of where they are going and fearing the worst; bewildered strangers at the edges of a crowd muttering to themselves; despairing attempts to save a treasured violin; and then a train whistle, a noise so unequivocal in its associations that it has assumed the portent of a symbol, the permanence of a scar.
It has assumed that role through its oversight of listed companies and the accounting requirements that it imposes upon them.
As for the public commendation — there are Support Schneiderman petitions on the Internet, and 21 New York Congressional representatives signed a letter in August praising his behavior in the banking case — Mr. Schneiderman said he was not surprised so much by its existence as by its intensity and longevity and the variety of forms it has assumed.
The concept of resilience has been used for more than a decade in ever-widening intervention fields and it has assumed ever-wider meanings that have made its applications and measurements uncertain and ambiguous.
The restoration thus gave the engine an appearance unlike any form it had assumed during its service life.
It had assumed that falling yields would prompt banks to shift their holdings into riskier assets, stimulating the economy.
Has my self-esteem not recovered from my last breakup as I had assumed it had?
And I had assumed it was pretty dark already.
Ha, they've assumed it's Islamic terrorism, he thought.
