Sentence examples for almost adopted from inspiring English sources

Now with two children (via donor conception and adoption respectively), she told me how she almost adopted a different child – but things broke down, leaving her angry and sour.

"He's almost adopted us," Ms. Martin said.

As soon as she said it, I thought, Oh, my God, we almost adopted a toilet sign as our logo.

That idea had been around for years and was almost adopted before Mr. Cox arrived, but there are other areas where the new S.E.C. is pioneering.

Leaving the studio after a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Oprah was greeted at the stage door by the usual clutch of fans and paparazzi, as well as a gentleman who claims to be the "secret son" she almost adopted when he was 11 years old.

Zellweger, who is Texas-born but has since been almost adopted by Britain after portraying Jones on screen with such gusto and with such a good English accent, has endlessly been compared with the hapless "singleton" she played in two hit films in 2001 and 2004.

Bauer argues that the Aid and Rescue committee made the mistake of almost adopting the anti-Semitic belief in unlimited Jewish power, that Jewish leaders could move around freely and persuade the Allies to act, and that American Jews had easy access to money and goods.

Clearly, the international classification of headache disorders (ICHD-II) [36], almost universally adopted elsewhere, is not widely accepted or used in most hospitals in China.

Experts familiar with the Park Service questioned that assessment and said that in previous cases, the preferences cited in draft reports were almost always adopted, regardless of public opinion.

Industrialized nations have almost always adopted a combination of the two to cut debt, according to an International Monetary Fund survey last year.

In court, there was little meaningful body language between the two men, once so close that Mr. Weeks was considered almost an adopted son.