Sentence examples for were only adopted from inspiring English sources
If e-cigarettes were only adopted as substitutes and helped more people to quit smoking, they could increase the associated health and financial benefits that come with this by cutting tobacco use.
Soybeans were only adopted in Argentina in the 1972 1973, almost 20 years later than in the US.
In this respect, the parameter values shown in Table 5 were only adopted in this particular experiment and the prediction shown in Fig. 3(c) was obtained with the parameters in the proposed hybrid predictor set in accordance with Table 4.
And in fairness, the responsibility to protect is a new doctrine; it was only adopted at the U.N. World Summit in 2005.
The sideswipe at its rival bit.ly has a whiff of sour grapes – after all, it was only adopted as Twitter's default partner in May after a long-term flirtation with granddaddy tinyurl.com (bit.ly is also used by Technology Guardian).
Unfortunately, the results shown in [26] could be only adopted by uniformly linear arrays (ULA).
The evaluation board is only adopted for prototyping purposes, while the final redesign of a customized board has to be foreseen for a final optimized prototype with unused components pruned and so ready for real series production.
The EU-US Privacy Shield was only adopted last year — replacing the prior Safe Harbor regime, which had lasted fifteen years before being struck down by Europe's top court following a legal challenge focused on the collision between US mass surveillance programs and Europeans' fundamental privacy rights.
This was the first club badge to appear on shirts, since the policy of putting the crest on the shirts was only adopted in the early 1960s.
The unsuitability of unarmored iron for warship hulls meant that iron was only adopted as a building material for battleships when protected by armor.
An agreement to establish a regional criminal court by the African Union was only adopted in 2014 and will not go into operation until it is endorsed by 15 African countries.
