What is "take office"

Usage examples of "take office".

The migrant workers of the agricultural orbit rioted, doing no damage to the crops but hardly bothering to conceal the threat--in the event Hope did not take office.

Surely most of these reform gentlemen are honestly devoted to the cause of good government and have the best of intentions when they take office.

With you socialists to back us, we'll make them sing another song when we take office.

He would take office in January when the new session of Congress began.

Solitude under such circumstances being not to be thought of, Volumnia is attended by her maid, who, impressed from her own bed for that purpose, extremely cold, very sleepy, and generally an injured maid as condemned by circumstances to take office with a cousin, when she had resolved to be maid to nothing less than ten thousand a year, has not a sweet expression of countenance.

We elected a governor of Colorado, and the legislature refused to permit him to take office.

There were a dozen of these states, but the Grangers who had been elected were not permitted to take office.

The Labour leaders never found a solution, and from 1935 onwards it was very doubtful whether they had any wish to take office.

In the United States, 1997 saw the second Clinton administration take office with a different cast of characters from the first.

What we'll do is put the Dossiers Complete of all Party members who would like to take office into the computers.