Sentence examples for offered to assume from inspiring English sources

Though both firms offered $5 a share, Great Wolf and its advisers chose to go forward with Apollo late last year, in part because it offered to assume the company's debt, this person said.

Assuming Michael Schiavo was justified in ignoring the pleas of strangers who wanted him to keep his wife alive, it is less clear that he was justified in turning down the pleas of his wife's own parents, who urged Schiavo to waive his wife's "privacy" and offered to assume complete responsibility for her care.

Ottawa offered to assume most of the debt, negotiate a tax agreement, and outlined which services would remain in the jurisdiction of the province.

She revealed that her husband, actor Justin Bruening, being a Torchwood "fan-boy" influenced her decision to accept the role, stating that he told her "you've got to take this part" and offered to assume child-minding responsibilities.

The Canadian government was concerned that an American-financed expedition would give the United States a legal claim to any new land discovered in the Beaufort Sea, so when Prime Minister Robert Borden met Stefansson in Ottawa in February 1913 he offered to assume financial responsibility for the entire expedition.

He maintains I am encumbered with a nervous strain, overworked and in need of a vacation, and keenly offers to assume the burden of my duties until I am fit to return.

Tampa Bay was a charter member, but the league never found an investor-operator (the Glazer family, which owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League, recently declined an offer to assume control of the Mutiny) and has been running the club and losing money.

When questioned by his captors Rhys informs them of his colleagues death and in an act of self-preservation claims to have destroyed the meat sample and offers to assume his colleagues job in trafficking the alien meat.

We've grown to fear technology, to mistrust everything it offers us, to assume its every new offering has a dark side.

Wives who give too much, over function, make all the decisions, work too hard at the relationship, take care of everything in the marriage, and who don't know how to receive gratefully what the man has to offer, start to assume the role of the man in the family.

Majority (69%) felt that HRT should be offered to all menopausal women, assuming no contraindications and most (73%) did discuss HRT with their patients.