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    1. In accordance with the theory of life that I too had begun to adopt while in solitary confinement, I tried to develop a similar Zen-like acceptance of the here-and-now


    2. Author Michael Neill said the most difficult thing to adopt is


    3. Adopt the position in figure 24


    4. Thus to adopt MVC pattern in a web application, for example, the url need to become a way of


    5. into the custody of a foster family who hoped to adopt


    6. a better start with the families that would adopt


    7. it their own they will adopt to tell others, "Hey! stay away from that!"


    8. But her daughters only took half as long to adopt the early morning rituals for themselves


    9. ” He patted his benefactor on the back as Samuel smiled and wagged a finger at his wife, whose turn now it was to adopt the blank look, but of near feigned innocence


    10. And rather than adopt a strict plan for their service, they are open to what God wants to do

    11. Adopt Jesus’ prayer and Paul’s prayer to Philemon


    12. aware of the consequences to adopt any new-comer, who has nothing but his labour to support


    13. "Don't think you can adopt me like one of your whelps," Alec said, raising his head to the others


    14. wishes his children to adopt


    15. adopt as principle that a country could not be governed


    16. Humans have the capacity to discover, adopt and adapt what actually does exist in their universe


    17. The parliament of Scotland, when he first proposed his project, did not think proper to adopt it


    18. would adopt a free economy, like that in western


    19. economists did not adopt realist solutions for the


    20. Sooner or later, they will have to adopt radical

    21. Later that evening in Darniil’s quarters Zarko had the opportunity to convince his future brother-in-law of his sincerity to learn about and adopt the worship of their God, Yahweh


    22. The only thing that might have prevented her from marrying him was that he didn’t worship her God yet, though he had intimated that he would adopt the Hebrew law and religion and serve her God with her


    23. It is much better to think about whether they are ones that you can wholeheartedly adopt and pursue right now


    24. He has, quite rightly, decided to adopt a more insouciant stance


    25. Which is why, as you are now likely realizing, your 'family' can adopt any coating required in the moment


    26. adopt and hold a moment-by-moment attitude of


    27. I am helping you to adopt a


    28. think different thoughts and to choose to adopt bigger,


    29. The greater part of universities have not even been very forward to adopt those improvements after they were made; and several of those learned societies have chosen to remain, for a long time, the sanctuaries in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices found shelter and protection, after they had been hunted out of every other corner of the world


    30. Why did God create the Sun, Moon and stars only on the fourth day? Is it perhaps because people would one day adopt the Theory of Evolution? Did God in anticipation of this, have an order and sequence in his creation work, that would provide insight into the fact that it happened over a short period of time and was completed within 6 actual days, as opposed to Evolution’s billions of years? How can we be sure that everything was in fact created in 6 days and that these days are not to be interpreted as ages? If we look at Exodus, we have the following two passages:

    31. Can one then adopt an interpretation that God actually meant only the people and animals in the region where Noah lived? Would this be a true reflection of the meaning that is clearly emphasised through various passages? If God repented that he had made man, beast and birds, would he then only destroy 10% of them and leave the other 90% alive, when he said that he would “destroy all flesh” and destroy “everything that is in the earth”? Would he accomplish anything by destroying only a certain percentage as would be the case with a localised flood? Genesis 9 specifically refers to this Flood as a “flood to destroy the earth”


    32. Why would one choose to abandon the truth to adopt a lie and live in ignorance of that which is available to us, if we recognise him for who he is and step into a relationship with him?


    33. Given these facts, what attitude should we adopt with respect to what is written in the Bible? Should we not pay careful attention to the message it conveys? If we know and can scientifically prove with 100% certainty that the Bible is the only Book on Earth that demonstrates that a supernatural Being was responsible for its construction in its entirety; that every letter in the original languages, in which this Book was written, was placed in their individual positions with intense purpose and that this Book has been preserved through the ages without changing, omitting or adding one letter, does this not give us enough reason to at least read it and try to understand what is our Creator’s purpose for us?


    34. If the Bible anticipates events that would happen in the future, should we not then measure information, doctrines and “facts” that are forced onto us in today’s world, against that which is written in the Bible? Should we search for truth and answers to questions about eternity anywhere else, if this Book is the only document on Earth that can be proven to have originated from beyond our space-time and provides ample information about the topics we would like to know about? Would it be wise to adopt beliefs that are based on human hypotheses and theories alone - especially if there is mounting evidence against those theories? Would it be wise to risk one’s eternal destiny to follow after conjured up human fantasies and philosophies that have no provable basis for authenticity?


    35. Be aware of the fact that people adopt many ideas and theories in defiance of the truth since the alternative would not fit their worldview or the responsibility it would place on their shoulders toward their Creator


    36. While in college, my friends and I would adopt stray cats and then struggle to pay the unanticipated veterinary bills


    37. I decided on the spot to adopt him


    38. It’s generally not intentional; they just kind of show up, and you adopt or you don’t


    39. You can’t adopt infants


    40. And then when you said you didn’t want to adopt children, I thought I didn’t have a right to ask you

    41. Although I firmly agree that professionalism is a function of character rather than appearance, I am equally inclined to support the notion that many individuals (including yours truly) require (some) structure in their lives and that the degree an employee adopts a more casual approach to his or her personal appearance, he or she will likely to adopt similar (laid-back) attitudes as they relate to work; that is to say, that the one arguably feeds off the other


    42. Government resolutions, requiring ratification by nine of the thirteen states, were, because of hardboiled regional rivalries and parochial prejudices, virtually impossible to adopt


    43. Question: What strategies should the Republican Party adopt in order to retain its majority in both Houses of Congress in the


    44. One might reasonably adopt a similar argument whenever a member (part) of the Church (whole) has transgressed


    45. ) Although many of these communities retained a measure of ethnic authenticity, its members gradually sought to adopt, by assimilating, the customs and practices of (the) mainstream society


    46. Sophisticated Americans, or those who fancy themselves as such, may oftentimes try to imitate or adopt European manners without quite succeeding in pulling it off; much in the manner of a saloon girl vested in all the gaudy trimmings feigning respectability at the opera house!


    47. Reiterating the jumbling mass of ministry people to adopt new sound practices in a matter of days was just as inconceivable as totally circumventing the antiquated ministry machine in whole


    48. On occasion, I adopt a cover


    49. Subject to the exceptions we have discussed, I think there could be substantial pressure to voluntarily adopt the mechanism


    50. decided it has the power to: “License California and other states to adopt nonfederal fuel economy









































    1. adopted into His family as children


    2. We have become selfish individuals, taking all decisions based on materialistic considerations and adopted a culture marketed by others


    3. “I guess you wouldn’t know anything about that kind of stuff since you were adopted,” Johnny said, a little more angrily than he meant to


    4. Yoga, Meditation, community singing of songs in the praise of one lord or the other, and spiritual discussions etc are not identified with one religion but are adopted by individuals based on their experience with regard to its good effect on physical and emotional health and in search of true happiness


    5. their firm young bodies gleamed in the candle light, they adopted poses and positions


    6. Having no paper, nor pens, I adopted a simple procedure


    7. He was adopted at birth


    8. The data on JJ stated that he lived with his adopted father near Taunton where he had grown up; the mother had died a couple of years ago


    9. Her knock was answered by a friendly-looking man of about her own age – Iain Sweet, the adopted father of JJ


    10. ‘His mother died shortly after … after you adopted James and she hadn’t told anyone of his existence

    11. Naturally, I have hit a complication – which of Joris’s projects can you recall that did not have such issues! JJ’s adopted mother died some years ago and his father is now on his own


    12. Should she tell Alan it was none of his business who she had sex with? That was the truth wasn't it? Was Alan a casual friend? An adopted son? He was something more than the first but less than the second, not a complete partner in her life


    13. Now, Caesar Augustus was Julius’ adopted son, and he came to power around the time that Jesus was born


    14. adopted the creed of doing what I really want to do,


    15. Guidelines to live by that would be adopted around the world, and handed down from generation to generation


    16. Once we were in the great days of our past, we found the branch of the future where Thera never exploded and the mainlanders adopted our culture rather than stole it


    17. Boofy was a stray cat that adopted our family when


    18. You were his second adopted sex-child, but he kept you and saw you thru your education, until you O


    19. ” Tania adopted the same resigned look that matched her sister's


    20. Allcock, who was several years younger than her husband, embraced Harry as an adopted son, and took his arm as they entered her home

    21. know who her birth Mother was, but Leonard and Mark adopted her, it seems


    22. Allcock gained Harry's attention, to which Harry merely shrugged his shoulders and adopted a most innocent expression


    23. There was a longstanding unwritten and therefore quite tacit understanding between all the Livingsons, natural or adopted, that when the Lodges required extra manpower, they each pitched in to help


    24. Jean adopted a policy of absolute silence unless he was


    25. If God would take the kingdom from those who had been promised so many promises, because they did not believe, then how much more could it happen to us, who were adopted and grafted in


    26. They were watered and fed, and eventually adopted by the Petrols


    27. "Have you adopted some native religion?" Alfred asked him


    28. the Judaic faith, while the Greeks adopted Christ's


    29. is it enough to find out the church adopted a wrong


    30. The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention

    31. He adopted several of my cures, and taught me many things that Mother hadn’t known


    32. The customs of merchants, which were established when the barbarous laws of Europe did not enforce the performance of their contracts, and which, during the course of the two last centuries, have been adopted into the laws of all European nations, have given such extraordinary privileges to bills of exchange, that money is more readily advanced upon them than upon any other species of obligation; especially when they are made payable within so short a period as two or three months after their date


    33. adopted as a symbol just the hammer


    34. It was afterwards adopted, with some variations, by the Duke of Orleans, at that time regent of France


    35. And my adopted brother Andrastus lost his


    36. It is not useful to insist on the solutions adopted


    37. to the solutions adopted in the fight against cold


    38. “Her mother died in childbirth and my mother adopted her


    39. Tragus questioned this odd practice, but Nerissa explained she’d heard of the technique from her adopted brother


    40. “He was my adopted brother

    41. “Let's just see if any of our pirate prey have adopted this particular neighborhood;” the Elf concluded and continued to watch each of the scenes before her---simultaneously


    42. John became a soldier to please his father, but never adopted service to country as his motive for doing so


    43. He adopted as his purpose the education of inner-city children


    44. Senta took in the scenes in front of her and realized unhappily that she'd adopted the costume of one of the sex-slaves


    45. In a moment they emerged once again wearing the white smocks and carrying the appurtenances of their adopted offices


    46. But very few countries have entirely adopted this liberal system


    47. Their eyes were numbed to the expression of staring they'd adopted nearly exclusively over the last of this day's events


    48. Elphinstone Emiclairsenne Tei I, born in the highlands, adopted daughter of the Matriarch of Lascor---and her chosen Heir---onetime captive of the Naud, and now pre-eminent Contractor of the Lascorii Selective Service renowned across the Alliance as: the Elf


    49. The policy of Portugal is, in this respect, the same as the ancient policy of Spain, with regard to all its colonies, except Pernambucco and Marannon; and with regard to these it has lately adopted a still worse


    50. One common but most useful affirmation that I have adopted is – “All is well”














































    1. I stood up, instinctively pulling the hessian sack over my head as I did so – a reflex action – reacting to this strange new morning by adopting the tried and tested methods of survival


    2. adopting jargon as my mother tongue


    3. However, adopting an attitude that death could come at any time can send a message to your mind to preserve its focus, and let go of trifles


    4. In general, the richest and best endowed universities have been slowest in adopting those improvements, and the most averse to permit any considerable change in the established plan of education


    5. But this could be done only by adopting, or, at least, by favouring the tenets of that particular sect


    6. That is my gift to you for adopting me into your family


    7. “He told us one time he had no family of his own, so he was adopting us


    8. C: -- This passage also addresses the consequences of adopting a false belief when it comes to understanding our origin - it specifically spells out homosexuality as a result of this - but not only that, there are also 24 other characteristics that are mentioned, which would be found increasingly in people if they changed their belief from that of being created by God, to that of spontaneously evolving


    9. Nearing the time of Moo’s second anniversary of adopting us, my aging mother suffered a serious accident


    10. adopting and warming the solitary Thistle Goldfinch--was observed near

    11. (Why do we do the things we do when we understand (beforehand) that it is wrong to do them?) I believe that many of us are oftentimes ―victims‖ of our own internal designs; adopting behavioral attitudes contrary to our discriminating nature(s) that fail to give proper pause to their origin, ―the (cause) of their origin, its history, its qualities and attributes and its results and effects‖


    12. These unfavorable impressions may be overcome in a variety of different ways including: 1) Making themselves less conspicuous by adopting conventional lifestyles and habits i


    13. a (host) nation‘s customs and traditions …(especially) its language… when that nation seeks to accommodate ……by adopting the 56


    14. ) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life


    15. By accommodating the maturity level of their children by adopting their children‘s adolescent manners rather then setting themselves up as (proper) role models, parents have seemingly lost their proportional standing vis-à-vis their children


    16. Adopting his most ingratiating smile, he turned towards the guard


    17. Be that what it may, one of the more troubling aspects of this ―apostatizing‖ movement is underscored by its more extreme examples (Nation of Islam) whose members have parted company with America‘s social and religious traditions adopting, in many instances, racist attitudes toward Western Culture that most feel alienated


    18. they can continue to be irresponsible instead of adopting the policies that will lead them to prosperity


    19. Brazil"s president claimed to be Marxist but has been slow in adopting it completely


    20. When adopting our Project, the Country becomes internationally great political and economic potency, besides propitiating total well-being to its people, without excluding absolutely anybody

    21. Consequently, it will also motivate the other sectors in adopting this new organization style and execution of its activities through the unique task to be more competitive and productive


    22. I spent hours in conversations with Social Services to see if there was any chance of Jack and me adopting any of the children


    23. ―Are you thinking about adopting him,‖ she asked me


    24. After she left and went back to Sacramento, she called me later in the week and said she had some thoughts about maybe adopting Keith


    25. Social Services called, and they informed me that Michele was seriously thinking about adopting Keith, which is the main reason she went there


    26. v High national and international prestige for the public managers and participant organizations for the implemented solution, besides passing for the history as precursors when adopting XUSING Project


    27. Also, it generates gain opportunity and development to the entrepreneurs of the country that adopting


    28. The Philippine Republic was born on July 4, 1946, adopting much of the U


    29. There is, of course, the alternative view that “freezing” the Constitution as written, unless amended as provided for by Article 5 therein, was precisely the purpose of writing and adopting it


    30. The choice, he says, is not between adopting a metaphysics and not adopting a metaphysics, but a choice between “a good metaphysics and a bad metaphysics

    31. They tried, from birth, to mould me into collectivist thinking, into adopting the verdict of a group of State-picked "social experts" as my own


    32. For his part, Roger did not look very favorably on adopting children


    33. Though sympathetic and understanding of his friend’s new physically and overwhelmingly burdensome situation, Roger was unwilling to go along with Josie’s idea of adopting his friend’s daughters


    34. After adopting three children, the infertile member(s) belatedly regained his and/or her fecundity, and they had two natural children within a short span of time


    35. costs of adopting them


    36. Beware of adopting the principle


    37. around by adopting children, leading to blessings in these


    38. However, it must be emphasized that the failure of political intervention in the market does not demonstrate the necessity of adopting Socialism


    39. adopting its habitual solutions, which are generally three: to differentiate the


    40. and color The observation that they are seen as dark blobs before adopting

    41. Humans, however, are responsible for adopting this ideology


    42. The new game is called Socialutions and it is about adopting a new philosophy about how businesses can not only improve the satisfaction of all the people it serves but rather exceeds “the people” expectations and turns all the people into its PR machine fueling win/win relationships


    43. to adopting Socialutions aimed at


    44. Socialutions is about adopting a management method that ensures a business of worth to its stakeholders and a business that exceeds expected levels of satisfaction by people


    45. After weeks of agony, they decide to give their first born up, adopting him out, hoping to restart their family unblemished by the sins and misdemeanors of their past, with a new baby more adaptable to the American standard of perfection


    46. During one of the times we were there, the staff had found an abandoned baby on the premises and the hospital ended up adopting (not officially) the baby and raising it for several years until a suitable home was found for the little girl


    47. semi-permanent, and those in these roles often find themselves (implicitly) adopting the Iron Law


    48. Improvisers usually can’t resist adopting these new stylistic changes because it


    49. Instead of adopting Western innovations blindly, Gāndhi wanted only those machines that helped all humans and avoid those that harm even a few


    50. Was I adopting a new manner of thinking? Would










































    1. Palladius adopts the opinion of Columella, which had before been recommended by Varro


    2. Although I firmly agree that professionalism is a function of character rather than appearance, I am equally inclined to support the notion that many individuals (including yours truly) require (some) structure in their lives and that the degree an employee adopts a more casual approach to his or her personal appearance, he or she will likely to adopt similar (laid-back) attitudes as they relate to work; that is to say, that the one arguably feeds off the other


    3. consumes beyond the limits of his or her (material) resources, however, is unlikely to find any sum sufficient to support a standard of living that extravagant spending oftentimes adopts


    4. We yet emphasized if determined country adopts the complete implantation of the Computational Monetary System, all the citizens will become “beneficiary individuals” and all the corporations of that country will act as “agreed organizations”


    5. Ironically, the drumbeat tactics the regime adopts to prevent the Tea Party from telling the truth simply affirm how alien to America, and how fascistic, their beliefs and programs are


    6. Establishment continuously adopts the attitude that they know


    7. adopts at least three different types of


    8. the work which the Master Himself adopts, because, in addition to any defect


    9. instruction which He adopts; there are many ways of teaching apart from the


    10. It gets used to that position that it adopts that state

    11. Sitting down Grailem adopts a frown of annoyance and stares blankly out of the window


    12. When Greg abandons Tina, the latter and May move into an apartment and Tina meets and eventually marries Jeff, who soon adopts May


    13. That cape announced to the world the glory that is possible when one adopts the philosophy and grace inherent in a barnyard fowl


    14. Once he is imprisoned, he adopts the role of model


    15. His irises adopts the color of his gamma emissions


    16. of Delta adopts the added strength as the faint glowing


    17. All nature forms adopts this kind of sequence That had been followed since the days of


    18. He doeth all things well; the plan which He adopts must be right


    19. warned that the United States will lose standing in the region if it adopts a military


    20. Seven adopts accessibility to the seventh world powers which is Islam paid under the name “The Arab Empire”

    21. Hell forever adopts the necessary revenge handed by the Lord, so we should loose interest in boosting revenge


    22. and adopts a ‘wiser if not holier than thou’ posture, as he has got


    23. He adopts different, hitherto untried methods to reach out


    24. You will find that it adopts the place


    25. The mind adopts more forward path if the individual is shaped by less authorative forces


    26. Thus, those who have believed and rendered the good actions set to calling to the right and exhorting to fortitude; and that who adopts their way will avoid loss and gain happiness


    27. In this noble fortress, the Almighty God wants to draw our attention to some universal signs which show man the Might of his Creator and acquaint him with His great Favor and Care about him, so that he may turn from his inattention and recover his consciousness, then he desists from his shunning and adopts the right path


    28. This is obviously noticed in our fact: anyone that adopts the primrose path keeps heavyhearted and troubled whatever money, glory or authority they may gain, and they


    29. God wanted then to show man another verse of the verses indicating His potency and His great care of this man so that if he also thinks, he may glorify his Creator and appreciate Him, then he adopts the way which the Almighty has legislated to gain the happiness in this life and the life to come


    30. This Verse includes all believers, starting with the time of our master Adam (pth), because anyone who believes in their Provider and adopts the way of goodness that was revealed by God through the Envoys will surely become a good human being and a charitable creature

    31. ‘If he adopts the straight ways, taking the people of right as his ideal and role model, his spirit will be illuminated by the light of the Prophet (cpth), “The Shining Lamp”, and this light will keep flowing into his spirit even after death, when his body is buried in the earth


    32. These facts are also proved by this saying reported by him (cpth): "Man adopts (follows) his close friend's faith


    33. This perfection which the spirit has colored within the times of its entrance into God's will be translated in the spirit of this believer who adopts that way in the form of mercy, tenderness, generosity, bounty, chivalry, helping the needy, saying the truth, openness of speech, kindness, gentleness, politeness, patience, deliberateness, modesty, bravery, to stand up strictly to the false, justice, equity, self-esteem, sense of honour… and others


    34. God’s messenger (cpth) says: “Man adopts the faith of his close friend; therefore, each one of you should be careful when choosing his intimate friends


    35. Each family adopts a crew member by sharing their child’s affection


    36. More could be made of Pritam's story, particularly as her opinions about the Sikh religion and traditions are so different to those that Andy adopts


    37. When subjected to outside stress, the human brain adopts a defence mode; it’s a primeval defence, fight or flight


    38. This is the rare habit of man but if man adopts it life becomes humorous


    39. The fashion of dressing sitters in meaningless, so-called classical draperies is a feeble one, and usually argues a lack of capacity for selecting a good arrangement from the clothes of the period in the artist who adopts it


    40. He adopts the figurative as their “greatest meaning” and the one to be applied to the wicked in the last day, and right here he has brought before us a score of scriptures where man have been destroyed, consumed, etc

    41. "They are at enmity," replied Don Quixote, "because this Alifanfaron is a furious pagan and is in love with the daughter of Pentapolin, who is a very beautiful and moreover gracious lady, and a Christian, and her father is unwilling to bestow her upon the pagan king unless he first abandons the religion of his false prophet Mahomet, and adopts his own


    42. Over the previous few days, we had been consumed—and perhaps even a little distracted—by the technical details of the search, which were provided to us in the depersonalized language the military adopts when looking for anyone or anything


    43. "When a man," continued Raoul, "adopts such romantic methods to


    44. The subtext always seemed to be “So you’ve pretty much joined a cult, haven’t you?” I could tell that people were thinking what I certainly would have been thinking if I were in their shoes: that I had become one of those people, the formerly normal guy who arrives at middle age and adopts some sort of strange spirituality


    45. In a subsequent paragraph, Keynes adopts his famous beauty contest metaphor for speculation


    46. This issue demands careful consideration before one adopts a contrarian trading strategy in a taxable account


    47. So let’s suppose he adopts a baseline (normal) allocation of 60 percent stocks, 30 percent bonds, and 10 percent cash, the same allocation as was used to illustrate CTS #1


    48. Not with his best friend, not with the thief who steals from rich tourists and adopts stray dogs


    49. The EMH adopts unrealistic views in such matters as employee stock options


    50. He forthwith adopts one of the candidates thus selected as the only available one, thus proving that he is himself available for any purposes of the demagogue





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    Synonyms for "adopt"

    adopt take in acquire assume take take on embrace espouse sweep up dramatise dramatize borrow take over take up follow imitate appropriate arrogate mother father vote for approve affirm assent to ratify sanction

    "adopt" definitions

    choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans


    take up and practice as one's own


    take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities


    take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect


    take into one's family


    put into dramatic form


    take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own