Sentence examples for adopt were from inspiring English sources

The employed adoption rate would of course only occur if private market incentives to adopt were widely present and accessible to producers, which currently they are not.

But Spanish parents wanting to adopt were beginning to cast a wide net.

Indeed, the Rev. Christopher Coyne, a spokesman for Cardinal Law, indicated that the Boston recommendations that could be hardest to adopt were those concerning the rights of priests.

He said at the time: "What better opportunity to replace someone I lost than to replace him with someone I can give a future to?" But his plans to adopt were reportedly thwarted by Ukrainian laws.

He did not discuss points of disagreement, but the government-run Ria Novosti news agency said that laws in some states granting same-sex couples the right to adopt were a particular sticking point.

I'd be happy to adopt (were he or she still alive) the wonderful Airedale in a photo by Mr. Erwitt (1971), tensely poised on the lawn, stick in mouth, quiveringly alert to the promise of a fetch-it game that could go on forever.

The anonymity they adopt is legal.

Parents who adopt aren't saints, saviors, or heroes.

Being adopted is different for everybody.

"Getting my song adopted is my sincere hope".

The tone he adopts is, however, far from alarmist.