assume power

Only after the death of his mother in 1663, did he really assume power.

After his father's death in 1466 he assumed full power.

Just because the 52-year-old son has assumed power doesn't mean he will be able to hold it.

A new generation of leaders will assume power in China next year.

He might well have struck in order to assume power.

They were just weeks away from formally assuming power in a new government.

Clearly, any new political leaders would have to reach an accommodation with the army to be able to assume and hold power.

He was elected president for a second term in 1918, but died before assuming power, on 16 January 1919.

The agent is assumed power to intervene in the physical world.

After all, a new team of Bush regulators is preparing to assume power.