Sentence examples for briefly adopted from inspiring English sources

The turban was briefly adopted by European men in the 14th century.

The velvet collars on long jackets were briefly adopted by young Guards officers as a nostalgic gesture towards the era of Edward VII.

Early on, he briefly adopted a blazer and tie as a courtship strategy, but soon abandoned them in favour of long hair, beard and sandals.

In these new wars there can be no such resolution (hence Bobbitt's earlier coinage, "the long war," which a more sober Bush briefly adopted).

In July doctors at the British Medical Association stuck by their opposition to assisted suicide, having briefly adopted a neutral stance several years ago.

And Mr. Lefebvre laid a mischievously unstable foundation; on "Losing Track of Daytime" he briefly adopted the warp and wobble of a dubstep groove.

When Omalu attempts to prod a skeptical neurosurgeon to endorse his findings, the other doctor briefly adopts the language of religion himself, calling the game a blessing to the local community and the nation as a whole.

So what you're saying is that it's surprisingly easy to briefly adopt the traits of a well-known avatar that you control within the confines of a game?

As part of his own process of engaging with modernity, he self-consciously aligned himself with Realist novelists such as Émile Zola and Edmond and Jules Goncourt, drafting illustrations for their novels and briefly adopting a similar social descriptiveness.

You could perhaps compare AC/DC's dogged single-mindedness to that of the Ramones, but even they felt the need to briefly adopt the warp-speed stylings of hardcore punk in the mid-80s, which by AC/DC's standards marks them out as worrying dilettantes.

In this regard, the 2/9th, initially with orders to join the 2/12th's counterattack, was delayed an extra day after an erroneous intelligence report from MacArthur's headquarters warning Clowes of a renewed Japanese attack forced him to briefly adopt a more defensive posture.