Being at some distance from the west, Diodotus and his successors gradually adopted the customs and lifestyles of their subjects.
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?
Mountain men and trappers who adopted the customs were also considered amoral, and often identified by their long hair.
With this attitude, Europeans, with the exception of Christian missionaries, seldom adopted the customs and languages of local people under their empires.
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.
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.
As you'd expect, the simple brilliance of the idea has seen it spread to larger cities, with punters in Lima and Cuzco adopting the custom; prepare to wince and cheer in equal measure upon discovering its cultural appropriation by attention-seeking hipsters near you.
While California banned the question from public employment applications last year -- and mass retailers such as Target have voluntarily adopted the custom nationwide -- implementing the employer policy in tandem with the housing policy could round out the support ex-offenders need.
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].
The Manchu began to adopt the Chinese customs and language and to intermarry with the Chinese.
