But instead of simply resisting the measure, NADA, a key lobbying group, seized the idea and converted it to its own purposes.
It seemed that one man had borrowed the whole Republic & all its officers and converted it to his private, idiosyncratic ends.
In 1840 John Philips, the Yorkshire Museum's curator, restored and converted it to use as his home while retaining its external appearance.
The House Appropriations Committee converted it to a soft earmark.
Mr. Helmsley converted it to a sportswear showroom building.
He has converted it to an campaign headquarters.
After Mr. Rivers bought the entire building, he converted it to a condominium in 1992.
They bought it and over that summer converted it to a school.
In 1938 an investor, George Garfield, gutted the old Bownette, converted it to smaller apartments and renamed it Hayden House.
In 1995, AOL purchased a 235,000-square-foot industrial building along the toll road and converted it to a computer center.
"It's like they've designed it to look like they've taken an old building and converted it to apartments," Mr. Ingis said.
