Sentence examples for to adopt himself from inspiring English sources

To that end, he announced "a series of concrete and substantial reforms" that he intended either to adopt himself under his authority as president or, where appropriate, to call upon Congress to enact through legislation.

If someone sees that all of his friends are pro same-sex marriage, he may feel that such an opinion is the social norm and be more likely to adopt it himself.

Di Robilant writes of Zen "padding generously" to fill out the five letters, and then proceeds to adopt the same strategy himself.

But some analysts have suggested that Mr. Chen may feel less need to adopt pro-independence positions himself as long as Ms. Lu's presence reassures hard-liners in his party.

This leaves Turner free to adopt a philosophy for sustaining himself through his losses: "Sometimes you just have to see how much music you can make with what you have left".

In forcing this socially conservative agenda on the country, the Kremlin is trying to brand its opponents as propagandists of homosexuality and blasphemy, even though the opposition's biggest concern is about corruption.At the same time, Mr Putin has himself tried to adopt the anti-corruption slogans of his opponents and even targeted some officials.

One response to these puzzles (eschewed by Parfit himself) is to adopt the thesis of the nontransitivity of intrinsic betterness.

(Admittedly, rejecting the Tractatus account is also the option Wittgenstein himself seems to adopt at the end of the book; here then we enter the issue of what the point is of taking us through such a bizarre and unconvincing theory in order to throw it away at the end).

Colvin, who soon switched from rhythm guitar to bass, was the first to adopt the name "Ramone", calling himself Dee Dee Ramone after he saw a 1950s gangster movie with brothers who had a similar last name.

After the game, Sabathia verbally kicked himself for trying to adopt the new approach, which he said sapped him of his signature aggressiveness.

Though a Catholic himself, he began to adopt the ideas of separation of church and state modeled after the US.