Perhaps he consciously adopted it, but didn't want to tell anyone that it was a conscious decision.

This dispute deals with the question whether the research in the social sciences should be "neutral" or consciously adopt the partisan view.

If taste succumbs entirely to such social forces, the result is the same as that of consciously adopting an external ideology described above.

It was the first Civil Law that consciously adopted as its cornerstone the distinction between i. rights from obligations and ii.

Although the term "radical right" was American in origin, the term has been consciously adopted by some European social scientists.

Religion was a matter of cult and ritual rather than ideas; it was based on emotion not on ideology or consciously adopted theory.

Mr. Montand, at the beginning of his career, is splendid as the sort of guy for whom attitude is a consciously adopted style.

The son of the Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, he once considered writing fiction and has quite consciously adopted narrative devices in his historical work.

There is no consciously adopted position in the WIPO Treaty on temporary copies.

During the campaign, Rajiv deliberately spurned the tight security which had surrounded him as Prime Minister and consciously adopted a more intimate style of canvassing.