Sentence examples for adopts for from inspiring English sources

The United States must ensure that any rule the suppliers' group adopts for selling technology to India is not weaker than anything already in American law.

"We will work to ensure the system Moody's adopts for taxpayer-backed bonds places primary emphasis on the risk of default," Mr. Lockyer said.

Ms. Payne can not only do it, but the voice she adopts for the task is strongly reminiscent of Fitzgerald's, especially at the upper end.

"I am here today to appoint a few czars and czarinas," Mr. Richardson said in the slow sonorous tone he enthusiastically adopts for such occasions of public import.

(Murray confesses that the fatalistic look of self-loathing Harris adopts for the camera was mainly borrowed from Harrison Ford, whose grimacing face was plastered on billboards all over Tokyo, advertising Asahi beer).

To get his pro-business message across, Tony Blair has had to bang on and on in the faintly nauseating bizspeak he adopts for such occasions.But he has succeeded only because his campaign has been so single-minded.

While on the subway to a meeting with a prospective publisher, he spots an adorable boy (Michael Algieri), whom he semi-adopts for four days after this little cherub is accidentally separated from the grown-ups Sam assumes must be his parents.

Treated maple is also being adopted for decking on yachts.

Yet none will be adopted, for at least two reasons.

The classical Roman character was adopted for the majuscules.

There were no mandatory standards adopted for securing nuclear facilities.