Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.    From LearnThat.org.  [Hyman Rickover]

An adopted child.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

My adopted state.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : to adopt a nickname. ,to adopt a person as a protégé. ,The House adopted the report.    From Dictionary.com. 

What part of the title adopted shows the doctrine and form of government?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Catechism Of The A. M. E. Zion Church. For Use in Families and Sunday Schools.] Reference

Gesta Dei per Francos is the title adopted by Guibert de Nogent (died about 1124) for his history of the First Crusade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

In England the story was also run by the weekly magazine, Women's Own, who gave it the title adopted here, Blind Chance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvis Latte] Reference

North of the Forth-Clyde area the incoming language was Gaelic or a variant thereof, so the label adopted was presumably Alba.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name?] Reference

It is, you will notice, a term adopted from dog training.    From Wordnik.com.  [President's Sycophants Are Blaming the Victim] Reference

And it was also a term adopted by the pioneers of the ERA in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Millennium Event On Vital Voices Through The Century] Reference

I know "fierce" is now a term adopted by pouting divas who want to be thought of as even more pouting than they are able to actually pout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Additionally, "'Orchestration' is the term adopted by the LETSI community to replace the term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily] Reference

The name adopted by Neville was Henry Cornelius van Sloetten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford] Reference

Gouvernementabilite -- a word adopted by his facetious Majesty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ball at Sceaux] Reference

According to Hoveden, one of the laws adopted from the Anglo-Saxons by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

Wall, a name adopted by Mr. Morrison in his recent novel about Wapping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London] Reference

In the epistle to the Galatians, whose child does he speak of as adopted?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference

We are, in a phrase adopted by physiologists, '' active couch potatoes. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [TidBITS: Apple News for the Rest of Us] Reference

This latter piece of etiquette has probably been adopted from the Chinese.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo] Reference

This derived from Latin Iosus, which the Romans adopted from the Greek Iesous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]

One of the numerous terms which the apothecaries adopted from the Arabic, in which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850] Reference

The designation adopted in November 1965 for the transport aircraft used by the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Ranch Hand]

Spellings of proper names and the numbering of the Psalms are adopted from the Latin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference

Christians under the later Roman emperors adopted from the Greeks a similar ceremony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

Anonymous - a moniker adopted by a worldwide group of hackers that notably promulgated.    From Wordnik.com.  [APCmag.com - All Articles] Reference

Nirgrántha (lit. "liberated from bonds"), a name adopted by the adherents of the Jaina sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buddha A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes] Reference

The Chicago Synod, a name adopted later, organized and joined the Council in 1871 as Indiana Synod.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)] Reference

Evan adopted the Afrikaans word as his own and rolled it round his tongue as if he alone had invented it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smokescreen]

But AP headlines, at times, ran with the phrase adopted by opponents of the project and amplified by the media.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Green Footballs] Reference

Quantum electronics was the name adopted for the first conference on maser and related physics over twenty years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

Socialist Labor Party: the name adopted in 1877 by an organization to promote an economic rather than a political program.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

There are sufficient reasons for the belief that the doctrine of a resurrection was quite early adopted from the Persians by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference

This form of unpoliteness has been adopted from the English, and it is as little worthy of imitation as the form of their government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference