devolving on
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In this battle the commander of the Confederate army, General Albert Sidney Johnston, was killed in the first day's fighting, the command devolving on General G. T. Beauregard.
From Ulysses S. Grant by Walter Allen
Admitting, then, that all Christians have some kind of responsibility and duty devolving on them, a most important question comes up.
From Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by A.C. Baldwin
During Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s premiership, Mr Asquith gradually rose in political importance, and in 1907 the prime minister’s ill-health resulted in much of the leadership in the Commons devolving on the chancellor of the exchequer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
Lucien evidently suspects an occult sinister allusion here, but Napoleon is only alluding to the succession devolving on the first child of their joint families.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
But the command devolving on Colonel Burns, a cavalry officer, who declared he was incompetent to direct infantry movements, a retreat was resolved upon.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
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