They will themselves have become members of the community, at least by adoption.

The new ordinance allows two adults not related by blood, marriage or adoption to live in the same house with their families.

It was good to feel I belonged somewhere - if only by adoption.

Now, by adoption, my clan shares responsibility for this wounded place.

It is likely that some of the descent involves links by adoption.

Marriage to a sister by adoption was quite customary.

Why do you injuriously introduce the name of my mother by adoption?

True, the succession has not passed by adoption for over a century.

At issue is a 36-year-old ordinance that prohibits people not related by blood, marriage or adoption from living together.

But was he not, in his work, a Frenchman by adoption?