The Haaren, Wadleigh, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt High Schools adopted the custom of wearing gowns this year.
By the 16th century, gunners had adopted the custom of describing the length of a cannon's bore in calibres, that is, in multiples of the bore diameter.
In the Rich wealth class, some noble women (although very few in our study population) might have also adopted the custom of hiring wet nurses to breast-feed their babies [33], resulting in shorter inter-birth intervals and higher fertility [34].
And then I reflected on my own work habits, and the ways I have adopted the customs of this new country, and I wondered: Is this the slightly suspect nostalgia of the immigrant for the lovely but already mythological terrain that she herself has left behind?
When Islam's armies first reached Persia, they were shocked at this snobbery; then they adopted the custom they loathed; the control of women was hard-wired into their psyches.
(He was one of the first Englishmen to adopt the French custom of wearing a peruke, which explains why in his surviving portraits he always has on an enormous and weighty-looking hairpiece).
The Baden-Württemberg referendum is evidence in its favour.Germany will not now suddenly adopt the Swiss custom of putting everything to a popular vote.
Taiwan and South Korea also adopted the custom.
With this attitude, Europeans, with the exception of Christian missionaries, seldom adopted the customs and languages of local people under their empires.
Being at some distance from the west, Diodotus and his successors gradually adopted the customs and lifestyles of their subjects.
A study of DNA from prehistoric pigs suggests that when Near Eastern farmers moved into Europe about 8500 years ago, native fisher-folk may have adopted the newcomers' custom of keeping domesticated pigs.
