He was adopted from a friend who could no longer keep him.

Are they more likely to be adopted now than before?

The course has been adopted by nearly 5,000 high schools around the country.

California has already adopted its own, to take effect in 2006.

The current policy against such cases was adopted in 1988.

But, he said, the Administration has since adopted a similar position.

She also adopted two children, who are 16 and 8.

Since then, at least 25 states have adopted the law.

The plan was soon adopted as the national model for other states to use.

A clear common position has to be adopted on Iraq!

They have already been adopted and are coming into force.

As I said already before, the law would have been adopted.

Talking to others who have adopted children can give you a sense of what's involved.

In any case, we seem to have adopted her as one of our own.

However, such a course must be adopted with great care.

If adopted, the plan would go into effect 30 days from then.

The program is being adopted at other high schools across the state.

I was sure their mother would turn out to have been adopted.

They took an interest in her and she adopted them.

He had wanted to be adopted into a human family.

The current name was adopted on the turn of 1988 and 1989.

The group's current name was adopted at the same time.

The child was then adopted to care for the parents' old age.

She was adopted as a baby along with three other children.

The present name of the school was adopted in 2007.

He made this adopted land of his come to life.

There were then about 25 adopted children living in the home.

All adopted children come to their new families with a history and a story.

A few days ago, the city released its adopted son.

The family already had one biological and two adopted children.

I thank God for allowing me to have an adopted land.

The adopted son then moved in with the Fox family.

It is, he suggested, one small way to give something back to his adopted country.

Each of the four adopted children is separated in age by only one year.

She lives with her two adopted children, an 8-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy.

I am speaking to you through the mouth of my adopted son.

I have been accustomed to look upon him as my adopted son.

She has two adopted children at home, and is in the process of adopting a third.

It's likely the adopted son's dead if he ever existed.

He is married (since 1988) and has an adopted son.

Nothing has made me feel younger, or more alive, than my two adopted children.

They seemed to share the same weaknesses his adopted culture did.

He is probably the only adopted English child in these islands.

Nor did he seem to exist in his adopted country of Israel.

The fact that I'm her adopted father and you happen to be my son is irrelevant.

Some adopted children may have difficulty with social relationships outside the family.

In 2000 the estimated number of adopted children was slightly over 128,000.

Tom was the only adopted child in his family and has two siblings.

When she died in 1940, the papers were given to her adopted son, Jack.

She has a successful career and a happy marriage with two adopted children.