The phrase "adopt proposition" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey the idea of accepting or embracing a suggestion or idea, but it is not a commonly used expression.
Example: "The committee decided to adopt the proposition put forth by the members regarding the new policy."
Alternatives: "accept the proposal" or "embrace the suggestion".
On Nov. 6, voters in California will decide whether to adopt Proposition 36, a ballot initiative that would reform the most draconian aspects of the law — and, in our view, restore the original intent of voters, which was to lock away violent career criminals for life, without unjustly throwing away the lives of small-time, nonviolent offenders like Mr. Taylor.
After all, they adopted Proposition 13, which cut the schools' main revenue source (property taxes).
In 1996 California's voters adopted Proposition 215, also known as the Medical Marijuana Initiative, which holds that the state's criminal laws against marijuana do not apply to seriously ill patients who use the drug on the advice of their physicians.
Where project labor agreements with targeted hire goals already have been adopted, Proposition 39 funds should be subject to them, as they have a strong track record of facilitating the hiring of disadvantaged workers.
In 1986 it adopted Proposition 48 in order to boost that class's entrance standards, directing that to play sports as a freshman, an athlete needed a 2.0 average in a high school core curriculum and a combined score of at least 700 on the Scholastic Assessment Tests, about 200 points below the national average for college-bound seniors.
One year ago today, California voters adopted Proposition 47, changing drug possession and five other nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors.
States don't get any bluer than California, so last November's vote adopting Proposition 47 – reducing six felonies to misdemeanors – could easily be taken as evidence that liberals and Democrats are leading the nationwide de-incarceration movement.
In adopting Proposition 47 on Tuesday by a huge margin, Californians made a statement about the tough-on-crime policies of the last generation that increased prison costs and populations many times over while too often accelerating, rather than reversing, the descent of offenders and often whole communities into cycles of crime and victimization, incarceration and recidivism.
The governor might argue that a little more patience is in order, and that might have sufficed — until this week, when he released a budget showing just a fraction of the anti-recidivism, victim services and education money that voters demanded when they overwhelmingly adopted Proposition 47 in November 2014.
In 2016, he presented and voters adopted Proposition 57, which brought back much of the former parole system and with it the incentive for inmates to participate in programs that will make them better bets to return safely to their neighborhoods.
The answer is to adopt the proposition set forth by Gen. U. S. Grant in our Civil War, and Roosevelt and Churchill in World War II: declaring irrevocably that the only acceptable end to hostilities is unconditional surrender.
