Adopted in sentence

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We have blended families, adopted families, we have nuclear families living in separate houses and divorced families living in the same house.

When my wife and I adopted these family meetings and other techniques into the lives of our then-five-year-old twin daughters, it was the biggest single change we made since our daughters were born.

He was a broken branch grafted onto a different family tree, adopted, not because his parents opted for a different destiny.

Change the incentives, and the behavior changes, and the states that have adopted small dollar funded systems have seen overnight a change in the practice.

When Connecticut adopted this system, in the very first year, 78 percent of elected representatives gave up large contributions and took small contributions only.

With a few exceptions, the vast number of developing countries that have adopted electoral regimes are still suffering from poverty and civil strife.

But how would we know that the AIs have adopted our best values and aren't just unconscious zombies tricking us into anthropomorphizing them?

However, to many who live in the emerging markets, this is an illusion, and even though the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was signed in 1948, was unanimously adopted, what it did was to mask a schism that has emerged between developed and developing countries, and the ideological beliefs between political and economic rights.

And so the FBI, under the leadership of an attorney general who is African-American and a president of the United States who is African-American, have adopted the Tea Party definition of the crisis, in which it is the first virgin crisis in history, conceived without sin in the executive ranks.

I adopted Kevin when he was only six months old, completely unaware of any hereditary traits, but, thank God, now we know.

In 2015, the UN adopted the Sustainable Development Goals.

You can see the megalomania even in his adopted title – "The Illustrious One."

They married Frankish women, adopted the French language, and soon started converting from Norse paganism to Christianity.

He was a Bernese mountain dog, and my ex-husband and I adopted him, and about six months in, we realized that he was a mess.

I also think it's a huge part of Facebook, the monkey that adopts the cat or the great dane who adopted the orphaned fawn, or the cow that makes friends with the pig, and had you asked me eight, nine years ago, about these, I would have told you that they were hopelessly sentimental and maybe too anthropomorphic in the wrong way and maybe even staged, and what I can tell you now is that there is actually something to this.

I grew up a feral, adopted child on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, following my bricklayer/fisherman father around.

I was adopted by the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese during the riots, and he donated a row house.

And the Bishop adopted me as his kid.

Well, I'm very pleased to announce to you that HP and a furniture company called Steelcase have adopted us as a demonstration model for all of their technology and all their furniture for the United States of America.

As we talked further, it would turn out that she was a mother of two adopted children who were both on their way to medical school.

But what's really interesting about Uber is it hasn't really adopted new power values.

Now, I talked about frugal innovation, initially pioneered in the South, now being adopted in the North.

Our cities are full of imported plants, which now run wild across their adopted homes.

This immigrant begging America to be as merciful to a native son as it had been to an adopted one.

And I love England, my adopted country, with a passion that perhaps only someone who has lost their human rights can feel.

We used the standards ourselves, we were even paid to update them over the years, and eventually, they were adopted by NATO.

Steve Kodis: It was adopted in 1955.

And I think if they were adopted, I would see them around the city.

In my crusade to make flags of the world more beautiful, many listeners have taken it upon themselves to redesign their flags and look into the feasibility of getting them officially adopted.

But one team that rose to the challenge adopted three key principles.

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