Meanings of assume now in English

I think it is a natural role for women to assume now.

He can assume now that the right decision was made.

Let us assume now that when you enter the office of your prospect, he is disgruntled about something.

Kedzie's lawyer, however, felt it good tactics to assume now the pose of benevolent patience with an erring one.

And can we assume now that "Bono has given his official blessing" is the new "going from strength to strength"?

I'm assuming now that she's had me fired the job offer is off the table.

Under the strong wind that had sprung up the lake assumed now an extraordinary aspect.

Guise, who had hitherto been no more than a silent spectator, assumed now the most active part.

Assuming now that comets are transparent, can any other phenomena peculiar to comets be accounted for upon this hypothesis?

He, who at first was the one who implored and pursued, assumed now an air of passive superiority, accepting Concha's homage.

She wandered across the world, assuming now this shape and now that, but nowhere could she find a resting-place or a home.

Besides, it contained no end of dark corners, with which his childish imagination had associated undefined horrors, assuming now one shape, now another.

Her companion had assumed now the rôle of simplicity, and Cleve was disappointed with the first glance at her plain white Chambéry gauze dress.

Both the thickness of the material and its dull shade made the portieres serve ideally for the purpose assumed now both by Kennedy and myself.