Sentence examples for he adopted for from inspiring English sources

He adopted for his own use the armorial bearings of an ancient noble family with which he had no connection and assumed the honorific particle de.

The small obedient voice he adopted for Mr. Simon's "I'd Do It for Your Love" set the stage for the explosion to follow.

Soon he was making other acquisitions, including Power Corporation itself, a small Montreal electric company whose name he adopted for the conglomerate.

This time the fast tempos that he adopted for the closing movement seemed to grow naturally out of the score, rather than to be externally imposed for effect.

He's not as chunky as the look he adopted for Gangs of New York, where he gained 30lb, but he's still powerful looking.

Then he adopted for himself a trash-talking, high-living character called Dolemite: first as a comedy act who made ultrabawdy party albums, then in blaxploitation films.

To get his pro-business message across, Tony Blair has had to bang on and on in the faintly nauseating bizspeak he adopts for such occasions.But he has succeeded only because his campaign has been so single-minded.

Obviously, our hero was in Andy Murray's face, straight after the defeat to Rafael Nadal, using the sympathetic voice he adopts for moments of great national disaster, and trying to buck up our boy with talk of "taking positives out of it", and what a "wonderful achievement" it was to reach a semi‑final.

In general, they dispense with praise and highlight problems, each in a shorthand: Chabon marks passages with "D.B.," for "Do Better," a notation he adopted from Daniel Menaker, for years a fiction editor at this magazine.

And before he did that, Yarmuth continued a strategy he had adopted for every Republican speaker that day: reading off data from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Commonwealth Fund on the impact of repealing Obamacare in that Republican's state.

And for a player of such distinction, he has had little impact in the anchor midfield role he has adopted for both club and country out here in Brazil as the passage of time inevitably removed his ability to be the barnstorming inspiration of old.