Sentence examples for adopted bad from inspiring English sources

WHEN countries adopted bad economic policies in decades past, only their own citizens paid a price.

Joining a tall-tale tradition that also includes Bo Diddley, Mr. Moore adopted "bad" personas with names like Dolemite or Petey Wheatstraw ("the devil's son-in-law"); by the end of the 1970's, Dolemite had been in his own series of blaxploitation movies.

In short, arts organizations adopted bad habits.

Even the most competent central banker can't protect us from adopting bad ideas.

He is Hispanic, has diabetes type II since age 18, and hypertension ever more common in the Hispanic population in the U.S. as they begin to adopt bad American dietary habits.

Turn Off the Music, Please More and more hotels, restaurants, and retailers are adopting bad music as a branding device, writes Peter Jon Lindberg in Travel & Leisure: It would be revealing to compile an alternative history of Western music, focused solely on Songs Played in Hotel Lobbies and Cruise-Ship Corridors Through the Ages.

Now I can honestly say my college years were a turning point in my adopting bad dietary habits.

14 It was also mentioned that high stress levels have a negative impact on the cardiovascular system and subsequently on mortality; 15 that stress is related to adverse lifestyle and diabetes, 16 or leads to people adopting bad habits such as smoking or heavy drinking as a coping behavior.

Connecting with other struggles doesn't mean adopting bad-ally habits.

Not many people want to read about happy adoptions, but everyone wants to read about the family who adopted the bad seed who wants to burn the house down and hang the cat.

The sporting director Fredi Bobic expectedly adopted the bad cop role ("Those who think we've made it will feel the heat," he warned) but there's no doubt that a cushion of four points ahead of Hamburger SV will cool the Abstiegsangst over the next few days.