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It was a most fruitful discussion, with both sides agreeing to adopt a common policy.
Since our research so far has not produced any answers to this problem, we need to adopt a different approach to it.
We will have to adopt a more scientific approach in the future.
Several governments have adopted tough new anti-terrorist legislation in the wake of the attacks.
She tends to adopt a falsely cheerful tone when she's upset about something.
to adopt a subservient role/position
There is no English equivalent for 'bon appetit' so we have adopted the French expression.
They have adopted local customs and tried to blend in with the community.
The prime minister has adopted an inflexible position on immigration.
Throughout Missouri, 4,600 groups have adopted highways and agreed to pick up trash, mow grass or carry out similar duties.
When you design a housing estate, in order to get the roads adopted, you have to satisfy the highway authority.
Such tactics may be adopted by some parasites.
According to that hypothesis, proto-digeneans possessing a typical turbellaria-like structure adopted commensalism before becoming tissue parasites in gastropods.
A similar sampling regime was adopted in 1998.
Now the user adopts the role of the public servant when typing data directly into the system of the tax authority.
Although various methods will often be adopted, there is a dearth of information about the factors which facilitate or impede recruitment to trials.
The adopted framework produces this more basic pattern, using the constraints in (30a) and the ranking in (30b).
In order to achieve this aim a case study approach was adopted.
The procedure adopted by the practice for communicating test results involved direct communication of screen-positive results only.
The 1998 table is similar to the new table that was adopted in 2004 for men but overstates mortality for women.
In principle this was much like multi-pillar systems that have recently been adopted in other countries around the world.
The use of only revolute and prismatic pairs is adopted by reason of their genericity and technological implementation.
A key par t of this "strengthening" movement was to unify the nation by adopting one language as the standard.
She argues that care is needed to avoid primary-age children being encouraged into adopting an adult-style learning approach, which they are too immature to handle.
In adopting such self-reliant approaches, entrepreneurship, a sense of pride, self-fulfilment and achievement are evident among community members.
The latter are still in use, but have been adopted exclusively by members of the political class and business people.
