Sentence examples for and trying to adopt from inspiring English sources

Dr. Tunis said he spent a lot of time in government "learning about NICE and trying to adopt the processes and mechanisms they used, and we just couldn't".

"When you get older," he said, "it's tempting to ape the current values, so you see parents wearing the baggy pants, sporting the bare midriffs and trying to adopt the lingo.

As reported above, a major part of the MDGs has been at least partially accomplished and many countries are on the way to achieving the MDGs and trying to adopt a sustainable path (21).

After that, I categorized unoccupied buildings as manageable and tried to adopt a take-it-as-it-comes attitude.

"People forget who they are and try to adopt what they see abroad," said Ary Nicolas, a Haitian activist who encourages Haitians to grow and eat local foods.

May sees Alice as a substitute for her lost daughter and tries to adopt Alice as her own, an act that ultimately estranges the two women.

In Mr. Gardiner's obsession to control the island's destiny, he once searched out a distant relative in Mississippi and tried to adopt him as a son to inherit the property, but the man declined.

"It provides a skewed vision of influence and tries to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach when influence is anything but," he says.

We study successful companies, distill key lessons from how they have done it and try to adopt those as best practices in our organizations.

The approach is a piecemeal to the garden city and tries to adopt a systems approach to greening the city starting at a local level, and ultimately culminating into a grand plan that will transform the whole city.

The main purpose of BA is to reduce the effect of contention among the nodes and try to adopt the population of nodes so the number of nodes contending for medium is a more favorable way to define an offered load for analyzing BA.