The phrase "rhetoric adopted" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when someone has adopted a type of language or style of persuasion to argue a point. For example, "The politician adopted a populist rhetoric to appeal to his base."
Worse, prevailing Republican rhetoric, adopted in part by Democrats, portends more budget cuts, which would leave the agencies unable to enforce current rules, let alone new ones.
In the window we see the ominous shadow of a street orator who, in the rhetoric adopted by Patrick Pearse, proclaims "bloodshed is a cleansing and sanctifying thing": inside, the carpenter Fluther Good and the companionable Rosie huddle together in the snug over a glass of malt.
In an interview broadcast Sunday night on "60 Minutes" on CBS, Mr. Obama blamed the tone and rhetoric he adopted with his opponents for disappointing Americans.
U.S.-Soviet relations improved considerably during Reagan's second term, not least because Reagan softened his anticommunist rhetoric and adopted a more encouraging tone toward the changes then taking place in the Soviet Union.
When William Lloyd Garrison started publishing The Liberator in 1831, he had a keen appreciation of black abolitionists like David Walker, who had preceded him and whose anti-colonization program and radical rhetoric he adopted.
The government abandoned the avant-garde anti-corruption rhetoric and adopted a well-known conservative politician's old motto: "He steals, but he gets things done".
Romney has courted these voters relentlessly in this campaign, consistently attacking McCain for his support of comprehensive immigration reform -- or "amnesty," in the rhetoric Romney has adopted.
McCarthy had adopted the rhetoric of revolution.
The group started off as an Acholi militia and then adopted Christian rhetoric with a heavy dose of mysticism.
But she adopted loftier rhetoric Wednesday, reminding members of Parliament of the work that an earlier political generation had done to unite Europe after a century of bloodshed.
With curious echoes of Mr Bo's campaign in Chongqing, Mr Xi has also adopted Maoist rhetoric, with much talk of how officials must get close to the masses and oppose Western pollutions such as media independence and civic rights.
