Sentence examples for adopt a plank from inspiring English sources

In 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt ran (unsuccessfully) as a third-party candidate for president, his party became the first national party to adopt a plank supporting a constitutional amendment.

Texas Democrats came together at their state convention earlier this month and agreed to adopt a plank to their party platform calling for the decriminalization of marijuana.

Mitt Romney was quick to condemn Akin, and his campaign stipulated that, as president, Romney would allow abortion for pregnancies resulting from rape (despite the fact the GOP's platform committee just adopted a plank refusing to make exceptions for rape or incest).

When Theodore Roosevelt founded the Progressive Party, it adopted a suffrage plank, and he aggressively courted women.

Religious conservatives at the State Republican Party convention in June adopted a platform plank that called for the defeat of judges who approve judicial bypasses.

Adopting a third plank of the Conservative programme, Mr Darling announced that from 2009 air taxes would be levied on the flight, rather than the passenger, a measure that is regarded as better targeted at cutting carbon emissions.

A sharp address given by Mayor Hubert Humphrey of Minneapolis as well as the local political interests of a number of urban bosses convinced the Convention to adopt a stronger civil rights plank, which Truman approved wholeheartedly.

Today he has called for the Democratic Party to adopt an "Abortion Reduction Plank" to the party's platform.

He has since backed away from those planks, saying he'd adopt a different position as president.

Manufacturing is a key plank in the administration's economic recovery plan, and in January 2013 Obama used his State of the Union address to urge Congress to adopt a host of measures, including measures Lipinski had been advocating.

"Adopt" a tiger.