Sentence examples for time assumed from inspiring English sources

By starting the program, West Germany, for the first time, assumed responsibility for compensating Jewish victims of Nazi crimes.

"Most Israelis at the time assumed the Haredim would die off in one generation," said Jonathan Rosenblum, a Haredi writer.

In Britain after 1918, as in the United States fifty years earlier, the government for the first time assumed responsibility for burials, graveyards, and commemoration.

Her last performance in a full staged production was in the title role of Samuel Barber's Vanessa in Los Angeles late in 2004 – an appearance that many at the time assumed was a farewell.

People around campus, where Karlan was a student at the time, assumed that such a gift would work — that it would cause other donors to give more than they originally planned — but he wasn't so sure.

In 1898 Queens borough became part of Greater New York and at the same time assumed its present size when the towns of Hempstead, North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay opposed joining New York City and were chartered within Nassau county.

"But in time, assuming she runs, they'll almost surely go after her," Ms. Duffy said.

It may well stand the test of time, assuming no one fixes what isn't broken.

In 1954 he became captain of the Elizabeth, at the same time assuming the title of commodore.

This means I spend much of my time assuming the rest of the world knows better, that everyone else effortlessly comprehends things I struggle to understand.

When it became clear that Allison was more than a friend, he mentioned it to her, at the same time assuming she'd realised.