Sentence examples for took on increasing from inspiring English sources
Things only deteriorated after my mother died, and I took on increasing responsibility for looking after my three younger sisters.
Another factor, which took on increasing importance, was the emergence of ethernet and other "local area networks" to link personal computers.
Although it began as a small organization that dealt with international contacts and the setting of space policies, it quickly took on increasing responsibility for the management of nonmilitary space activities and, as an added charge, aviation efforts.
A difficult race for Cambridge descended into a struggle to finish the Tideway course as their boat took on increasing levels of water, allowing Oxford to win for the fourth successive year.
In 1997, even as South Korea called in the IMF to help rescue its collapsing economy, Mr Kim took on increasing amounts of debt so that his giant Daewoo group could continue its frantic expansion.
Mr. Dell said during a telephone interview that, since last March, when the holding company for J. Walter Thompson and other agencies was established, there has been less and less for him to do as the financial people in the subsidiaries took on increasing amounts of the work.
"The need for pricing transparency in healthcare services has taken on increasing importance for citizens". The trouble is that no one actually pays these billed charges, not even the uninsured.
As the gap in affordability continues to grow, the role of public or social housing takes on increasing importance.
Standardized testing has taken on increasing importance throughout the country, spurred by the federal No Child Left Behind law and a desire for accountability by states and districts.
Moreover, shareholder engagement can help build valuable relationships with institutional investors that will pay dividends in the future, as shareholder engagement takes on increasing importance for US public companies.
But as the evidence unspools, such otherwise trivial questions take on increasing importance — not because of what the Supreme Court nominee did back then but because of what he says about it now, and what that says about him.
