The phrase "adopt the declaration" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of formally accepting or endorsing a specific declaration or statement.
Example: "The committee decided to adopt the declaration on climate change during their annual meeting."
Alternatives: "endorse the declaration" or "accept the declaration".
Still, there was opposition to such patriarchal views from the beginning, as when Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, asked her husband in 1776, as he went to the Continental Congress to adopt the Declaration of Independence, to "remember the ladies and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors".
Hayden King, director of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University, said while it was wonderful to hear the government would adopt the declaration without any qualifiers, he was skeptical after hearing the minister tout modern treaties.
On July 2 the Congress itself voted for independence; on July 4 it adopted the Declaration of Independence.
The Continental Congress appointed Washington commander of the Continental Army in 1775, and on July 4, 1776, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
The member churches of the EKD adopted the Declaration of Barmen, with its expression of the communalities of the Lutheran and Reformed traditions, as a foundational statement.
He asked that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon direct the United Nations mission chief in Kosovo to declare the action "null and void" and to dissolve the Kosovo Assembly, which adopted the declaration on Sunday.
Mike Emrick, up in the booth, apologized on his behalf, right afterward, and I, presumably along with many other viewers, immediately adopted the declaration as a motto, in life as in hockey.
Re "Iroquois Defeated by Passport Dispute," July 17: When the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, native peoples throughout the world felt a palpable and long-overdue sense of relief and thought that they had gained a measure of international respect.
When George instead declared them to be "in rebellion," representatives of the original thirteen states adopted the Declaration of Independence.
On 2 March 1977 the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration of the Establishment of the People's Authority" at Gaddafi's behest.
