Sentence examples for can't adopt from inspiring English sources

Pressure has been put on local authorities to do more to seek out would-be adopters, and to dispel the myths around who can and who can't adopt (basically, being single, fat or unemployed may be something you'd want to change in yourself, but it doesn't reduce your capacity to be a good parent, and the adoption powers-that-be are aware of that).

Same-sex couples can't adopt.

"LGBTI couples can't adopt in Queensland.

"I can't adopt you," I say.

Recently, Netflix learned that a company can't adopt a big price increase without suffering the consequences.

As a famous fiscal scold, he can't adopt the administration's "deficits, schmeficits" approach.

Sharia is so abstract, yet so everyday, it's hard to ban, (sorry Denis) and you can't really adopt it either because much of it is at odds with British law and society in general (sorry Rowan).

"We can't somehow adopt the moral hazard of just because they fight fiercely say, oh, we're going to somehow allow al-Qaida to be the tip of our spear with respect to Assad," Kerry said, adding that such a strategy would be "crazy and ultimately self-destructive", raising the level of terror in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere.

"So I thought, 'Why can't I adopt that mentality?'".

We can't all adopt Malala, but we can support her fight for global education at the Malala Fund.

But those of us who don't see the world the way Suzanne Collins does, can't suddenly adopt her style, her subject matter, her techniques just because they're salable.