Sentence examples for virtually adopted from inspiring English sources

In 1997, he moved to Phoenix to live with Bibby's mother, Virginia, who virtually adopted him.

Ono has virtually adopted Peaches, the Canadian singer infamous for her gynaecologically forthright songs and outrageous stage-wear.

After the war, during which her only surviving son died, Martha virtually adopted two of her grandchildren, and they substituted in many ways for the children she and George never had.

At Oxford he had met the Sitwell brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, by whom he was virtually adopted, and he spent most of the next decade traveling with them or living with them at Chelsea.

This brought him to the attention of the leading West End producer Binkie Beaumont and his partner, John Perry, who virtually adopted him, becoming, Bedford said, "the parents I always wanted".

Movingly, for a man who lost his own much-loved son to an inexplicable heart attack at a young age, he tells how he was virtually adopted by some very distinguished climbers, whose other identities as military leaders, university professors or city mayors were concealed in the democracy of corduroy trousers, tattered jackets and tenpenny plims.

As the last, two sections have shown, ontology views and virtual properties provide an effective way for virtually adopting the structure of RDF graphs for user and tool-specific views.

The younger man became virtually an adopted son, having access to Wagner's household for a dozen years.

His closest relationship among the younger generation was with the poet James Schuyler, who was briefly his lover and was virtually the adopted son of the Porter family, living with them on and off from the mid-1960's on.

None of these were voted straight into law, but this is not unusual -- a president's budget is virtually never adopted without major tinkering by both houses.

The only accounts of the period of the civil war, Kantakouzenos's memoirs and the history of Nikephoros Gregoras, with their pro-aristocracy bias, paint a very negative picture of the man, which has been adopted virtually unaltered by most modern historians as well.