Sentence examples for adopted sir from inspiring English sources

Asked whether he thought there was a chance his recommendations might never be adopted, Sir Howard said: "I often think of the myth of Sisyphus where Camus's famous novel says we must imagine that Sisyphus is happy pushing his rock up the hill.

Now we're starting to hear that politicians from both parties are getting the message about improving transparency of Government, from Gordon Brown adopting Sir Tim Berners-Lee's open data proposals to David Cameron promising the TED conference that every Government contract over £25,000 would be up on a website for all to see, if he was elected.

But the papers identify him as Iranian and don't recognize his adopted name of Sir, Alfred.

Carburettors were adopted because, as Sir Stanley Hooker explained, the carburettor "increased the performance of the supercharger and thereby increased the power of the engine".

For political reasons the expedition was never made, but Sir Francis Drake adopted the plan for his circumnavigation voyage of 1577 80.

Lady Raglan's term for the figure was adopted by the scholar Sir Nikolaus Pevsner — best known for his forty-six-volume series "The Buildings of England" — and that was pretty much that, as far as terminology was concerned.

The streamlining of grades is one of a series of ideas adopted by Maude and Sir Bob Kerslake, the new head of the civil service, for the civil service reform plan.

Sir Francis Dashwood adopted some of the ideas of Rabelais and invoked the same rule in French, when he founded a group called the Monks of Medmenham (better known as The Hellfire Club).

Two modified SIRs are adopted in the dual-passband filters to improve the return loss in both two passbands and control the resonant frequencies.

Alamayou was brought to England by Sir Robert Napier and adopted by the intriguingly named explorer Captain Tristram Speedy.

In his fifth novel, Flanagan returns to the 19th century and what was then known as Van Diemen's Land: a remote penal colony where the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, has adopted an Aboriginal girl, supposedly to civilise her.