Example Sentences

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The self-assumed authority and unspoken power that Symcox enjoyed until that moment was gone.

From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2020

The United States spends about 3.58 percent of its GDP on defense, an amount that reflects self-assumed global responsibilities as well as political will.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2018

My type is often guilty of equally vile behavior under the cover of self-assumed sensitivity and niceness.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2015

He concedes that French voters now prefer a strong President and promises to retain the Gaullist constitution, but without De Gaulle's self-assumed special powers, which Defferre considers a breach of that constitution.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it was then, just then, that there arose in Rome that unpremeditated change in its form of government which resulted in the self-assumed dictatorship of Cæsar, and the usurpation of the Empire by Augustus.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony