"adopt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He later adopted Portuguese citizenship, and married a Portuguese woman.
- He adopted Bolivian citizenship and entered the army as a general.
- This figure does not include those who have adopted Japanese citizenship.
- That changed in 1985, when he adopted British citizenship, and his knighthood became substantive.
- The award became substantive when he adopted Australian citizenship in 2000.
- He came to Britain aged 16 and adopted British citizenship.
- He also adopted Italian citizenship in virtue of a Italian grandmother.
- After 1880 most adopted the Jim Crow system of segregation and second-class citizenship for blacks, although they were still allowed to vote.
- Disappointed, Laughton returned once again to America, where he was soon to adopt citizenship.
- Meinecke retired to Canada, adopting citizenship there, and died there at age 82 in 1975.
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