Sentence examples for adopt only from inspiring English sources

At first, she and Hector were permitted to adopt only the youngest of the six, David, who was thirteen.

In November the government was able to adopt only a provisional national budget for 2011, based on the previous year's spending levels.

Worried about the rising budget deficit and instinctively dubious about short-term stimulus measures, he argued that the administration should adopt only narrowly defined tax cut measures aimed at particular sectors of weakness.

On Wednesday, however, the chancellor made it clear that the UK would adopt only the mildest of reforms recommended the OECD – a club of rich nations – in an attempt to tackle this abuse.

I had friends who spent all of their money trying to adopt, only to have things fall through again and again — birth mothers who changed their minds, foreign programs that were discontinued.

It would adopt only the big institutional changes in the constitution a new voting system, the foreign minister, a permanent president of the council and more majority voting (but drop the smaller commission).

We have adopted only a thin veneer of modernity.

The child can be adopted only after the mother relinquishes her parental rights.

The impact of such a ban could be limited, however, if adopted only by federal courts.

He and his wife, Arlene, 53, doted on 17-year-old Martin, their adopted only child.

Lynda found out she was adopted only when she was in her teens.