The phrase "adopted for himself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a choice or decision that someone has made for their own benefit or use.
Example: "He adopted for himself a new philosophy that emphasized personal growth and self-improvement."
Alternatives: "embraced for himself" or "chosen for himself".
It is a motto that a geology professor I had in graduate school adopted for himself.
It was conducted by Hans Rosbaud, who, with his Südwestfunk orchestra, devoted 50 rehearsals to its preparation, a meticulous approach that Boulez adopted for himself.
Then he adopted for himself a trash-talking, high-living character called Dolemite: first as a comedy act who made ultrabawdy party albums, then in blaxploitation films.
But he's adopted for himself a trash-talking, high-living character called Dolemite: first as a comedy act, then in blaxploitation films.
And, for all the charm and emollience, he could produce sharp shards himself, such as the remark that listening to Margaret Atwood was like being driven back and forth through Winnipeg on a Sunday.The title "man of letters", which he adopted for himself, was a consciously nostalgic one.
With the addition of the Malagasy honorific "ra", the expression was transformed into a sobriquet—"Radilifera that Rainilaiarivony adopted for himself and transmitted to a son and grandson.
Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi proposed that they adopt the flag of his International Paneuropean Union, which was a blue field, with a red cross inside an orange circle at the centre, which he had himself recently adopted for the European Parliamentary Union.
He quoted economist Milton Friedman;s famous maxim that "we are all Keynesians now," and adopted it for himself: "we are all socialists now".
Treated maple is also being adopted for decking on yachts.
Yet none will be adopted, for at least two reasons.
The classical Roman character was adopted for the majuscules.
