Word: adopt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pages of Rebellion are full of similar exhortations of comtemporary Southerners, urging them to adopt the Klan's noble, fighting spirit in the war against capitalism, with never a mention of the Klan's primary driving purpose...
...been following a "path toward bigger Government, higher taxes and higher inflation." He warned that "down that road lie the wreckages of many great nations of the past." Instead, he said, the U.S. must reduce both taxes and spending. Insisting that "it would be dangerous and irresponsible to adopt one without the other," he vowed to veto any attempt by Congress to enact tax cuts without committing itself to spending no more than $395 billion in fiscal 1977, which begins next Oct. 1. Without such a ceiling, the White House claims, the 1977 budget would reach at least $423 billion...
Nick Lemann--Reds in six. My heart is with the Sox but I think the National League competition will be too tough, alas. It is, however, fortunately possible to remain proud and indominable in defeat, and I think that's the stance the Sox should adopt...
...recommendations, which were made by the "Self-Appraisal" committee, also called for MIT to adopt a "per unit" tuition plan, and drop the flat rate tuition plan...
...danger of poltical and ethnic militancy to a great university is that they distort the quality of those delicate relationships and sensibilities that sustain a great university. Indeed, those who adopt militancy as a style of behavior within a university do so precisely because they, for whatever reasons, no longer comprehend the behavioral requisites of a great university. Thus for them a new raison d'etre becomes imperative: the logic of militant confrontation runs its civility-destroying course...