Sentence examples for originally adopted from inspiring English sources

The plan was originally adopted in 1992.

The law was originally adopted to combat drug abuse.

But first, House Democrats must approve the Senate's health care bill, originally adopted Dec. 24.

INAUGURATION DAY: The Constitution, as originally adopted, made no mention of a date to inaugurate the president.

The measure was originally adopted in 2002 by the lower house of Parliament before being shelved for a decade.

She took a cigarette break, and then resumed the excoriation of her friend, the one who had originally adopted Mittens and then returned him.

They were originally adopted from military cargo pants and paratrooper jumpsuits, becoming popular with young counterculturalists and skateboarders, who needed to free their hands.

In New Jersey, the Archdiocese of Newark is reviewing its policy on sexual abuse that was originally adopted by the five dioceses in the state in 1985.

Roman law, like other ancient systems, originally adopted the principle of personality that is, that the law of the state applied only to its citizens.

The systems are based on the Universal Product Code (UPC), originally adopted by the grocery industry in 1973, which uses optical bar-code technology.

Laurence D. Laufer, a former general counsel for the city's Campaign Finance Board, put the matter this way: "Just because a law was originally adopted by referendum doesn't mean that it would require another referendum to change or repeal it".