Sentence examples for took official from inspiring English sources

Few took official advice to abstain from sex – coyly referred to as "no eating something" in the song – seriously.

The Lions team this year will be the 21st since the four national unions took official responsibility for the team in 1910.

Google and Apple both took official positions (Apple donated $100,000) against the law, i.e., in favour of same-sex marriage.

She spent a year in Amsterdam, in 1992, playing doubles Ping-Pong alongside the pop-savvy Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, though she never took official lessons from him.

But after warning of a crash of the British pound in 1992 that took official forecasters by surprise, Mr. Godley was appointed to a panel of "six wise men" advising the Treasury.

In that year Antonio de Berrio came in search of Eldorado (the mythical land of gold); he took official possession of the island and founded San José of Oruña (now Saint Joseph), which served as the capital until 1784.

The action's effectiveness took officials by surprise.

Mr. Kelly's proposal took officials of the Office of Emergency Management by surprise, several administration officials said.

RECENTLY Vladimir Putin took officials to Moscow's lavish new Jewish museum for a meeting on inter-ethnic relations.

Suddenly the hijacking appeared to have a motive, one that took officials by surprise.

"The surprise was that it took officials so much time to come to this conclusion," said Msgr.