The phrase "adopt the guidelines" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of accepting or implementing a set of rules or recommendations.
Example: "In order to ensure compliance, all employees are required to adopt the guidelines set forth by the management."
Alternatives: "embrace the guidelines" or "follow the guidelines".
Funds that do not adopt the guidelines risk losing the state's business.
Officials hope to adopt the guidelines later this spring, with a view to the much more distant future.
"Our thought is companies will want to adopt the guidelines to avoid the kind of legal implications facing Peabody and Exxon," said Ravenel.
Colleges and universities that do not offer need-blind admissions, like Brown, were not legally permitted to participate, although they can adopt the guidelines.
Some states with few AIDS patients, like Wyoming, may be reluctant to adopt the guidelines on the ground that routine H.I.V. tests would be unnecessarily burdensome for doctors and patients.
Many states are expected to adopt the guidelines over the next year or two, but it could be several years before the guidelines are translated into detailed curriculum documents, teachers are trained in the material and standardized tests are revised.
If adopted, the guidelines could save more than 10,000 lives a year.
In late October, the Treasury Department officially adopted the guidelines, first proposed in April, which include suggestions for how these second-lien holders might be paid in such situations.
When they adopted the guidelines, called the Charter for the Protection of Children, in June 2002, the bishops threw in a less-noticed requirement for dioceses to "evaluate the background" of parish personnel who have "regular contact" with minors.
The Open Society Justice Initiative strongly urges the court and the state parties to act upon the lessons learnt following the Lubanga judgment by adopting the guidelines on intermediaries at the assembly of state parties this November.
