11.   Mr Cross will assume the role of Chief Executive with a team of four directors.

12.   The little birds had assumed the roles of birds that were absent from the area.

13.   They soon assumed the role of Sunni champions against Shiite Persia, some of the time taking and retaking territory from one another.

14.   Better therefore to try to anticipate such a calamity by assuming the role of an active and vigilant peace-maker.

15.   Not only did it furnish the missing equation of the Keynesian system, it had also assumed a role of paramount significance in the formulation of macroeconomic policy.

16.   But it was Bob Calder who assumed that role.

17.   It was as much a speech to slam eleven years of Conservative government as to promote himself as a statesman, capable of assuming the role of Prime Minister.

18.   Although he assumed the role of student to Dave, a neighbor and good friend of his, he proved a pretty handy angler himself.

19.   Although retired from public office, Mandela has assumed the role of elder statesman in international affairs.

20.   And a visibly fatigued Yeltsin also used the occasion to assume the role of a dynamic leader of a still-powerful nation.