I'd assumed the matter might have been the subject of office gossip, but perhaps I'd overestimated the newsworthiness of my actions.

我认为这件事可能会变成办公室闲话的话题但是也许我过高的估计了我的行为的新闻价值。

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Article 88 the liquidators shall by public announcement, after having assumed office, call the creditors to make statements of claims and send notice to known creditors.

第88条清算人就任后，应以公告方法，催告债权人报明债权，对于明知之债权人，并应分别通知。

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On the day Xie an assumed office, many officials came to congratulate him.

谢安上任的那一天，很多官员都来祝贺。

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In 1911, after leading the revolution against dictator Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Madero assumed the office of president of Mexico.

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At all of age 24, Pitt the Younger, son of a famous prime minister, assumed the office his father had held.

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Noda, 54 years old, is the third youngest prime minister in the post-war period, two years older than Abe Shinzo and a few months older than Tanaka Kakue when they assumed the office.

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