Sentence examples for took over direction from inspiring English sources

In 1963 Mankiewicz took over direction from Rouben Mamoulian of the ill-fated Cleopatra.

Her sons Wieland and Wolfgang successively took over direction of the festival and maintained the ban imposed on their mother.

Giovanni's son Giuseppe, known as Nuccio, was born in 1914 and took over direction of the company in 1934.

For Tamara Rojo, who took over direction of ENB in 2012, this new alliance is a masterstroke.

When the collaborationist Vichy government took over direction of the French lifestyle magazine Paris Soir, it announced in its pages a "summer of couture... and shopping".

He became deputy editor-in-chief and then succeeded as editor-in-chief when Val took over direction of the national radio station France Inter in 2009.

The FSA military leader, General Abdul-Ilah al Bashir, who defected from the Syrian government side in 2012, said in an interview with the McClatchy news agency last week that the CIA had taken over direction of this new moderate force.

Here is the latest of the rebooted Star Trek franchise with Justin Lin (of the Fast And Furious movies) taking over direction – and the first in which Britain's own Simon Pegg assumes co-scripting responsibilities, with TV writer Doug Jung.

But Mr. Holder instead assigned two prosecutors — Ronald C. Machen, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, and Rod J. Rosenstein, his counterpart in Maryland — to take over direction of existing investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, elevating the stature of the cases but not giving them any special powers.

Another series film, The Falcon Strikes Back (1943), followed, and then his luck turned; he was asked to take over direction - from Irving Reis - of a bizarre project entitled Hitler's Children, a hectoring, anti-fascist movie which became the first of Dmytryk's works to reflect his passionate leftwing views.

Kirkland, who was going through a divorce during the episode's production, assigned Nastuk, his assistant director, to take over direction in his stead.