Sentence examples for would adopt as from inspiring English sources

In an interview, Mr. Marzulla said Ms. Norton would be fiercely loyal to the new administration, and he insisted that her past views should not be seen as indicative of the positions she would adopt as interior secretary.

While at Eton, Ayer had read essays by Bertrand Russell (1872 1970), one of which, "On the Value of Scepticism" (1928), proposed a "wildly paradoxical and subversive" doctrine that Ayer would adopt as a lifelong philosophical motto: "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true".

The question being asked by executives, he said, is, "Is there a way to shift part of the cost to the government, so we have a better chance at profitability?" Executives for the Air Transport Association, the industry's lobbying group in Washington, were refining guidelines yesterday that they hoped legislators would adopt as part of its bailout package.

Rawls continues: "Thus the correct principle is that which the members of any generation (and so all generations) would adopt as the one their generation is to follow and as the principle they would want preceding generations to have followed (and later generations to follow), no matter how far back (or forward) in time" (Rawls 1993, 274; Rawls 2001, 160).

(When was the last time you thought about what kind of monster you would adopt as a pet?) Although often their technical skill is not quite up to par, their visions are often more imaginative and complex than ours.

Each village we arrived in, they would adopt children, as young as 9 or 10.

When she wore a particular style of dress, they would adopt it as well.

If the person needed coaxing, Pill started shouting "Who makes the clams?," which she'd adopted as her battle cry.

For the movie, Fonda had to cut the long dyed-blond coif she'd adopted, as she puts it, "to compete with the wives" — Vadim's exes.

In December 2008, the European Council decided that once the new Treaty enters into force, transitional measures would be adopted as soon as possible to increase, until the end of the 2009 2014 legislature, the number of MEPs of the 12 member states for which the number of MEPs was set to increase.

Crowder, who graduated from the university in the seventies, recalled feeling particularly unsupported while she was a student there and, perhaps as a result, is described as someone who would adopt students as special causes.