After the loss of a baby, a husband and wife adopt an older child.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Professional cooks around the country will adopt a local school.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Mhle says businesses that adopt practices like these are ahead of the curve and that the business climate is changing.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

And I would strongly appeal to other parts of the world to adopt similar instruments for the protection of internally displaced."

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"I think we have as individuals the right to follow the same policy or to adopt the same way of thinking."

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

He is encouraging banks to adopt new rules to limit payments to top executives in future crises.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Analysts say the country needs to adopt the 2010 budget to resume cooperation with the IMF and pay for natural gas imports from Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

Central and South American leaders who will attend the summit have been urging the United States to adopt a more open policy toward Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

"We will ask all states to put in place a plan to adopt and certify standards that are college and career-ready in reading and math."

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

But doctors are seeing people adopt bad habits that can cut their lives short....

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will also be at the U.N.this month, attending a Security Council session expected to adopt a resolution expanding the protection of women in conflict zones.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

Mr.Medvedev said he wants to make special mention that potential negative consequences from decisions (to go through with the NATO exercises) will completely and thoroughly be the responsibility of officials who adopt them.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

Nicholas Lardy, an economist and senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute, says China's unwillingness to adopt derivative loans and other high-risk financial products helped to shield it from the impact of the world economic downturn.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Ratings agencies, which Mr.Fillon said helped fuel the crisis, must adopt rules for dealing with conflicts of interest and offshore banking centers, which often allow clients to evade paying taxes in their home countries, need to be vigorously regulated.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24