The phrase "adopt the text" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the acceptance or implementation of a specific document or written material.
Example: "The committee decided to adopt the text of the new policy after thorough discussion."
Alternatives: "accept the document" or "approve the text".
Fuelling the sense of crisis, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, president of the convention, appealed to the European parliament to symbolically "adopt" the text - though it is the member states that have to agree it.
The highest compliment a reviewer can give is to adopt the text that he reviews.
In its first reading, Parliament may send amendments to the Council which can either adopt the text with those amendments or send back a "common position".
They then send amendments to the Council which can either adopt the text with those amendments or send back a "common position".
So much so that he's emailed about 100 schools around the country in a bid to get them to adopt the text (he says a few say they are "actively reviewing" it, though none have accepted it yet).
Britain initially aimed to adopt the text by the end of August, but accelerated its plan after a surge by Islamic State, which poses the biggest threat to Iraq since Saddam Hussein was toppled by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Understanding Codex describes the intricate but open and participatory standard-setting procedure the Codex Alimentarius Commission (188 Member countries, the European Union and 225 Observer organizations) uses to deliberate science-based evidence and adopt the texts.
If adopted, the text would have killed off the Kyoto treaty, which puts legal demands on rich nations, but not developing ones.
Once the draft agreement was approved, on June 19th, the EU's climate-change commissioner Connie Hedegaard tweeted: "Telling that nobody in that room adopting the text was happy.
For his part, Morsi has tried to argue that adopting the text quickly was crucial to ending a protracted period of turmoil and uncertainty in Egypt that had badly damaged the country's economy.
All we know for sure is that the full Senate adopted the text that we have before us here, as did the full House, pursuant to the procedures prescribed by the Constitution; and that that text, having been transmitted to the President and approved by him, again pursuant to the procedures prescribed by the Constitution, became law.
