"If she wants to be a journalist, then presumably she will adopt journalistic values," he said.

She simply cannot see any virtue in learning to be a proper lady or adopting European values and ways.

As the children move to cities, they'll become richer and adopt Western values on their own.

Fisher considered that Africans should become "civilized" through adopting European values.

They want to adopt values they perceive to be higher or perhaps just better suited to their natures.

They then adopt the norms and values of the people they conquered.

Every worldly-minded person should adopt spiritual values in his life.

In the opening decades of the twentieth century Japan appeared enthusiastically to adopt western values, 'from dancing to democracy'.

Other societies have adopted, or are adopting, different behaviour and values; we may do the same.

But it is far from clear that the country has actually adopted Thatcherite values as its own.