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Example sentences for: adopted

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Eddy adopted a posture of world-weary dignity and behaved like the indulgent father of unruly daughters.
These new constituencies adopted bourgeois values, among them a fixation with fashion--what's cool and what's not.
EPA's requirement, adopted in response to section 126 petitions, that sources in a number of eastern states reduce NOx emissions was recently upheld by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The reforms that have been adopted so far have profound implications for what government does, how it is organized, and how it performs its services to the country and its citizens.
Gorbachev, by contrast, desperately tried to save the regime, adopted glasnost and perestroika to that end, and saw the system blow up in his face.