The phrase "adopt a development" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts where one is discussing the acceptance or implementation of a particular development or project.
Example: "The committee decided to adopt a development that focuses on sustainable practices in urban planning."
Alternatives: "embrace a development" or "implement a development".
Indeed, WIPO recently adopted a "development agenda" to consider different intellectual-property regimes appropriate to the circumstances of a particular country or region.
On one side the necessity of a powerful tool which permits to a relatively experienced user to safely manage the detector for all the standard purposes and inform on the detector status and quality of the data pushed the LHC scientific community to adopt a common development platform and as much as possible uniform front ends.
Shaping the future As the international community stands poised to adopt a new development agenda in September 2015, youth-related concerns will be an integral component.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has led calls for the international community to adopt a post-2015 development road map based on "a new generation of Sustainable Development Goals to pick up where the MDGs leave off".
Not all enterprises can always adopt an innovative development strategy in their development.
Here at the Guardian we adopt an Agile development methodology.
Recommendations for schools Organize joint self-evaluation of realization of the program „School without violence" based on model which would be developed by UNICEF and adopt a plan for development of program components which are assessed as underdeveloped.
With rapid proliferation of new product offerings, fast changing environments and shortened product life cycles, firms are being compelled to adopt a collaborative product development (CPD) approach to integrate key functions and stages of new product development in intrafirm and interfirm.
Our aims are to stop recessionary policies, to demand the renegotiation of the debt, to defend national sovereignty, to defeat rightwing policies and to adopt a programme of development for our country.
This Friday, world leaders will adopt a new global development framework, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to eradicate poverty and inequalities and spur economic growth while respecting planetary boundaries.
