The phrase "adopted ourselves" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of taking on certain characteristics, behaviors, or beliefs as a group or individual.
Example: "In our journey of self-discovery, we adopted ourselves to new values that resonate with our true identities."
Alternatives: "embraced ourselves" or "accepted ourselves".
It was wrong to be right when only people we disagreed with held the views that we were later to adopt ourselves.
They gave us no room to breathe and we made a collective decision that if we want to oust them from the top of the world rankings ruthlessness was a quality we needed to adopt ourselves.
"Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness adopted an 'Ourselves Alone' attitude to government.
How can we hold others accountable for illicit practices like waterboarding if we have adopted them ourselves?
"We disrobed ourselves of our urban, cosmopolitan, adopted English ways and robed ourselves in our own visible cultural mantle," Carter says.
People have since countered you by citing the Islamic world's poetry, the discoveries in math True, the Arabs used the graphical numerals that we ourselves have adopted -- thank you very much.
It does not, in other words, apply to us on the condition that we have antecedently adopted some goal for ourselves.
Phone calls were the same way, for whatever reason we had adopted new names for ourselves (in Annie's case it wouldn't be the last time she changed her name).
If the Land vision were adopted we'd find ourselves with 50 mini transportation systems left to the whims of state politics; never mind the fact that the only way our economy works is if a business in Lansing can ship its goods to Dallas knowing that the complex interstate transportation system will reliably get the job done.
A nation of squares would not embrace a comedy about a badly dressed, middle-aged gay couple raising an adopted Vietnamese baby, we tell ourselves, no matter what they might say in Copenhagen or Berlin.
