The phrase "adopted on first" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity in its intended meaning.
Example: "The policy was adopted on first reading during the meeting."
Alternatives: "approved on first" or "accepted on first".
The agreement adopted on the first day of the three-day summit included no criticism of the death penalty for drug crimes, and instead called for greater cooperation between nations, while maintaining the prohibitionist framework which criminalizes all drug use that is not for medical or scientific purposes.
The Republican platform that was adopted on the first day of the Convention included a call to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which prohibits commercial banks from engaging in investment banking, an idea that is loathed within the industry but happens to be held dear by Bernie Sanders.
Senate rules, adopted on the first day of each session by majority vote, provide for successful filibusters if 41 senators stand firm.
Debate over the actual commitments countries were going to make was mostly done in Vienna in March, resulting in an "outcome document" that was adopted on the first day of this week's summit.
The document justifying the act of Congress — you know it as Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence — was adopted on the Fourth, as is indicated on the document itself, which is, one supposes, the cause for all the confusion.
He said the school budget was initially defeated last year, but was adopted on a second vote.
In late 2004 Conrad Burns, the then Republican senator for Montana, introduced a controversial amendment removing all protection for wild horses over the age of ten (which is not that old for equines) and those that have not been adopted on the third attempt under the government's controversial Adopt-a-Horse programme.
The Seimas' resolution, adopted on the second day, explicitly stated that Lithuanians from Suwałki Governorate had decided to join the fight for autonomous Lithuania.
However, today's Republican leaders have already made clear, through a rule adopted on the very first day of the new Congress, that they plan to hold rebalancing hostage this time around.
Milestones for women's rights Like all of the 2010 Commission on the Status of Women events, the UNICEF-UNIFEM panel marked the 15th Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted by the Fourth World Congress on Women in 1995.
