Sentence examples for when they assumed from inspiring English sources

McCourt and Daly were new to baseball when they assumed control of the Dodgers.

But it might never have happened had they realised the size of the financial mess they were inheriting when they assumed control of the club in 2010.

It is strange to think that Abraham Lincoln (52) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (51), who sagaciously guided the nation through times of unparalleled crisis, were both younger when they assumed office than George W. Bush (54) was when he did.

"They embraced this vision," he says, "because they wanted to leave the presidency stronger than when they assumed office, but the approach they took achieved exactly the opposite effect.

This has absolutely nonplussed the New York Knickerbockers, who for some time had been suffering delusions of invincibility, postdated to the autumn of 1965, when, they assumed, Bradley would join their team.

If the Democratic elite assumes that all liberal voters are outraged by sexism, they'll be making the same devastating miscalculation the GOP elite did when they assumed Republican voters were tied to the same conservative ideals they cared about.

2009: Someone, somewhere, goes a step too far when they assume West's identity on Twitter.

The porters still gesticulate and exchange private jokes when they assume my attention is elsewhere.

But they are wrong, I think, when they assume it will make learning an independent, personal activity.

The young molt their soft embryonic cuticle for one that is fully functional when they assume independence.

New leaders often condemn the venality of their predecessors, only to exceed it when they assume office.