Once adopted, debate on it must end, and all agree, and abide.

Once adopted, it can take a year or more for the dog to relax and allow human touch.

Once adopted, the new rule will apply retroactively to Dec. 23, 1987.

Once adopted, the plan will be subject to approval by the players association.

Once adopted as doctrine, industrial web theory had a host of effects.

Once adopted, these children have to learn how to attach, or bond, to others, including their adoptive parents.

Once adopted, it was designated the M-2 and underwent numerous upgrades.

This is an important proposal and, once adopted, it will add an indispensable element to workers' rights.

Once adopted, that resolution disappeared into the nirvana of politics without ever being applied on the ground.

The proposal before us today, once adopted, should form the basis for renewed political effort to remove the remaining obstacles.