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1 - People adopt health-related behaviors in order to stay healthy and to combat disease.

2 - This description bears a marked similarity to those offered by a number of eminent sociologists who adopt the trait approach.

3 - Because the majority of young people aged 5-17 years are enrolled in schools and because of the amount of time that children spend at school each day, schools provide an ideal setting for teaching children and teens to adopt healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.

4 - Alternative fuels must be cost competitive with traditional fuels in order to ensure widespread adoption, which is necessary for their benefits to be realized.

5 - The children and grandchildren of those who stayed have become increasingly assimilated, marrying Indians without European ancestors and adopting local languages.

6 - In hopes of better modeling salinity and currents, oceanographers have adopted a new international standard for gauging seawater.

7 - As the 21st century begins, a number of leaders in politics, education, and other professions believe that the United States must adopt some new values to go along with the older traditional ones.

8 - Participating in educational programs helps prisoners appreciate and adopt social norms and forms that are agreeable to society.

9 - Excessive traffic congestion and the consequences of chaos and air and noise pollution have impelled the mayor to adopt this policy.

10 - Japan's efforts to reduce piracy incidents in the area were highly successful so several other countries adopted similar tactics.