6 sentences with 'adopt'
Example sentences and phrases with the word adopt and other words derived from it.
• « Bats must adopt the prone sleeping form because of the large size of their wings - disproportionate to their body - which would prevent them from fleeing quickly in case they were caught on the ground and during their sleep by a predatory animal. »
• « In 1974, disappointed that they had not had a child of their own, Julie and Blake decided to adopt two children; they applied to an agency seeking homes for Vietnam War orphans. »
• « Athens stationed troops in garrisons in other cities and forced the cities to adopt new laws, regulations and taxes, all in order to keep money flowing to Athens. »
• « The Abbasid caliphs employed Persian bureaucrats and ruled in a manner similar to the earlier Persian Great Kings, although they did not adopt that title. Their role as caliphs was to protect the ummah and provide a political framework within which Shari'a could flourish; it was in the Abbasid period that Islamic law was truly developed and codified. »
• « Charles II was a cousin of Louis XIV of France and, like his father, attempted to adopt the trappings of absolutism although he recognised that he could never achieve a government like that of Louis XIV (nor did he attempt to dismiss parliament). »
• « One by one, the other great states of Europe began to adopt Dutch methods of managing finance: sophisticated bookkeeping, carefully organised fiscal policy, and an emphasis on financial know-how right up to the highest levels of royal government. »