For Washington, every question involving culture and trade has assumed enormous importance because of the impact it might have on business.

These and other questions assumed the status of doctrinal disputes.

My question assumes that he knows the answer, which I doubt.

Such questions assume that most people have well-developed personal systems of ethics.

The questions assumed that there was something wrong about the adoption.

It was on the issue of party organization that the national question assumed most importance at this time.

The question assumes that there is, after all, something dark and evil deep inside a robot.

The question assumed that no one could avoid being imprisoned at some time or other.

Given the size of those two republics, the question has assumed major political importance.

The question assumes that there is only one God.