Sentence examples for adopted the basic from inspiring English sources

U.S. and British researchers adopted the basic design of this device to create a magnetic tape recorder capable of high-quality sound reproduction in the late 1940s.

Complicated and outdated trade union laws mean that Malaysia has still not adopted the basic International Labour Organisation convention allowing freedom of association, and legal protection for migrants – should they need it – can be wholly inadequate.

Just to get the obvious out of the way: Woody Allen, in his startling new movie, "Blue Jasmine," has adopted the basic framework of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire".

Just to get the obvious out of the way: Woody Allen, in his startling new movie, "Blue Jasmine," has adopted the basic framework of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire". The literal-minded will call the movie derivative; I think of it as a grateful homage, a brilliant contemporary variation.

The De la Courts adopted the basic features of Hobbesian anthropology, but eschewed juridical concepts like "right" and "contract" (see Malcolm 1991, 548), opting to analyze the civil condition in terms of the competing interests of participants.

Indeed, in practice, firms have been increasingly adopted the basic principles of green management in their existing profit-based structure rather than shifting GMA (Garrod and Chadwick 1996; Halme 1996; Crane 2000).

Campbell more or less adopted the basics of Williams's (standard) theory and then further developed and defended it.

'Literalists' think that semantics is basically autonomous, with little 'pragmatic intrusion'; 'contextualists' adopt the basic outlines of the Relevance Theory view of the importance of pragmatics at every level, while perhaps demurring on many of the details and the psychological orientation.

The advent of Islamist terrorism has sharpened old fears that incoming foreigners may fail to adopt the basic values of the host country.

The failure to adopt the basic Chartist principal that MPs should represent equal numbers of voters is not the only issue to explain Labour's inbuilt advantage.

It adopts the basic SRI principle of planting seedlings further apart, and keeping them moist rather than flooded, but adds targets and measurements to provide consistency.