1.   Actors, please assume your positions.

2.   The show is about to begin.

3.   The last Governor-General, Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, assumed the position of President for a transitional period expected to last three months.

4.   The five-year MEng honours degree course is for particularly able students who expect to assume responsible positions in industry immediately after graduation.

5.   Although he is poised to assume the position his infamous father once held, little is known about what kind of union leader he might be.

6.   And assumed a position of weakness to earn it.

7.   Another was a changing of the guard as a younger, more tolerant generation began assuming positions of leadership in the community, Lange said.

8.   Assume the position, maggots!

9.   Assuming the position, Billington was, and not commanding it, as Vanbiesbrouck rarely fails to do.