Sentence examples for adopted something to from inspiring English sources

"They adopted something to say they did something, but in reality it does not change anything at all," he said.

Although the court stated in the Chiarella case that a violation "does not arise from the mere possession of nonpublic market information," the S.E.C. has adopted something close to that approach when the information relates to a tender offer.

And progressive taxes have increasingly, in recent years, adopted something analogous to the earned income tax credit, the EITC that's the U.S. name for it, but it's now in many countries around the world that provides negative taxes for the lowest income people.

Berkeley, Davis and Oakland have all adopted something similar to Los Angeles — asking that straws be given out only at customers' request.

Advocates want Claremont to adopt something similar to a University of California fund that earmarked $5 million in 2013 to help undergraduate and graduate students who are in the U.S. illegally to stay in school.

We need to adopt something similar to a "total cost of ownership" (TCO) analysis.

In 1941 anti-Semitic legislation was enacted in Bulgaria under German pressure to adopt something akin to the Nürnberg Laws.

A simple solution would appear to lie in adopting something similar to the famous German Rheinheitsgebot (purity laws) of 1516 which state that only unadulterated hops, barley, yeast and water can be used to brew.

Deller likes, in his own way, to look the part, so he has adopted something of the Englishman abroad.

It is difficult to know what belongs to you, as you often do not even realize that you have adopted something, and at the same time you consider things as your reality which have nothing to do with reality.

Rather than questioning the Vickers reforms, the chancellor urged the committee instead to examine how bankers could adopt something akin to the ethical standards imposed on other professions.