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Usage examples of assume.

On the morning Washington departed Philadelphia to assume command at Boston, he and others of the Massachusetts delegation had traveled a short way with the general and his entourage, to a rousing accompaniment of fifes and drums, Adams feeling extremely sorry for himself for having to stay behind to tend what had become the unglamorous labors of Congress.

This, of course, assumes that our accomplice knew of these parties in advance.

Always assuming that my lady the Marquise has reported accurately, there are other possible diagnoses.

All-Soul, but dwelling within it and assuming body therein, while the others received their allotted spheres when the body was already in existence, when their sister soul was already in rule and, as it were, had already prepared habitations for them.

I was the one who assumed the bags for the Birth Center ambulance were stored in their warehouse.

It is a more easy task to provoke the metaphysical disputes of the Greeks, to drive into the cloister the victims of anarchy or despotism, to sanctify the patience of slaves and cowards, or to assume the merit of the humanity and benevolence of modern Christians.

Henry was much pleased with the election, the pope, who thought that prelate too much attached to the crown, assumed the power of annulling his election.

Assume you have the flu unless: Anthrax exposure or cases are reported in your community.

No one will think twice about an antiquarian vicar assisting a paid companion, assuming they even hear of it.

The principle, applicable to both federal and State courts, that the Court first assuming jurisdiction over property may maintain and exercise that jurisdiction to the exclusion of the other, was held not to be confined to cases where the property has actually been seized under judicial process, but applies as well to suits brought for marshalling assets, administering trusts, or liquidating estates and to suits of a similar nature, where to give effect to its jurisdiction the Court must control the property.

Congress appropriated money to pay counsel on both sides of the argument, the Court passed on the constitutionality of the carriage tax and sustained it as valid, and in so doing tacitly assumed that it had the power to review Congressional acts.

Though these modes can be appropriately used only occasionally, nevertheless they are of great value to the reader, and the voice should be trained to assume them whenever necessary.

Reviewers who could see no structure in the book assumed its author must have sacrificed architectonic considerations for local pleasures.

Laedo assumed its orbital speed was controlled artificially, rather than dictated by the equally artificial gravity of its primary.

The most active and successful of the Plebeians accumulated wealth, aspired to honors, deserved triumphs, contracted alliances, and, after some generations, assumed the pride of ancient nobility.