"adopt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was referring to two states that adopted anti-takeover statutes to protect companies located there and locked in takeover battles.
- After the Clay decision, the various states began to adopt statutes or rules allowing for the certification of questions of state law to state courts.
- Many political prisoners have been released from the mental wards, and the Government has adopted statutes to protect psychiatric rights.
- The state of Arkansas, acting on a theory of states' rights, had adopted several statutes designed to nullify the desegregation ruling.
- The association adopted several new statutes until 1920.
- In May 1990 it adopted statutes and elected a five-member presidium and executive body consisting of 10 people.
- Between 1911 and 1933, 47 states adopted blue-sky statutes (Nevada was the lone holdout).
- Since then, however, 43 states have adopted statutes that allow a compromise, with parents sharing custody.
- In 1971 the town adopted zoning statutes that prohibited a landfill in an industrial zone.
- Arkansas, Massachusetts, Hawaii and Texas adopted similar statutes in 1987, she said.
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