The phrase "adopt a clause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal, academic, or formal contexts when referring to the acceptance or incorporation of a specific clause into a document or agreement.
Example: "The committee decided to adopt a clause that would ensure transparency in all financial transactions."
Alternatives: "incorporate a clause" or "accept a clause".
Why should executives keep that compensation if it is discovered later that the benchmarks went unmet? "I think the expansion is pretty significant in terms of the coverage of companies who have adopted a clause," said Paul Hodgson, a senior research associate at the Corporate Library who conducted the study.
Thus, a corporation may adopt such a clause, but decide, if a serious litigation threat surfaces in Delaware, to waive the clause's application and permit an action to be settled elsewhere for "a peppercorn and an attorney's fee". To be sure, this is self-interested, and the settlement might be collaterally attacked, but a collateral attack is a very uphill battle.
The convention did adopt a "cruel and unusual punishments" clause, but there is no reason to believe that it afforded New Yorkers any more rights than the Eighth Amendment to the federal Constitution, which, at the time, did not apply to the states, and which banned only torturous methods of execution, not executions themselves.
Given the overwhelming consensus that existing taxation practices are largely constitutional, Professor Penalver identifies a need for the Supreme Court to adopt a narrower understanding of the Takings Clause.
And concern that the new alliance might do just that was stoked by the quartet's suggestion that the EU should adopt a common security clause an idea that sounds like NATO's mutual security guarantee, minus the Americans and Canadians.In this section Will a quartet of Euro-enthusiasts undermine NATO?
The group is considering adopting a model building code clause for fuel tanks that could be adopted at state and local levels.
Senators adopted a 10-year sunset clause for the bill, though privacy advocates like Senator Al Franken hoped the bill would expire in six.
