How To Use Adapted In A Sentence

How does one grow regionally adapted beans for moist climates?
They had divers arsenals, or piratic harbors, as likewise watch towers and beacons, all along the sea-coast; and fleets were here received that were well manned with the finest mariners, and well served with the expertest pilots, and composed of swift sailing and light-built vessels adapted for their special purpose. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Little did Puccini suspect that his La Bohème would continue to be readapted ad infinitum.
So you're saying that I said in effect that "transitional structures are not selectable, that is, each organism is not adapted to its own environment"? Assessing Fault
His remarkable adapted style at the decks involves him mixing records using his mouth.

This loss in yearly disposable income would occur if Britain adapted a trading agreement which involved the loss of preferential trade links with the EU. Times, Sunday Times
But on the advice of Lightroom programmer Andy Rahm McCormack dug into the text of the software's existing template files, called presets, and adapted them to produce a custom file with a 24-frame per second rate used in some video. Crave: The gadget blog
It is a strange fact that Dionaea, which is one of the most beautifully adapted plants in the vegetable kingdom, should apparently be on the high-road to extinction. Insectivorous Plants
An unclassifiable mixture of animation, drama, love story, coming-of-age-tale-slash-concert movie, Hedwig is adapted from Mitchell's off-Broadway hit of the same name.
The fuel inlet connector and the armature are adapted to permit a first flow path of gaseous fuel between the armature and the magnetic coil as part of a path leading to said fuel valve.
In this paper, a theoretical Calculation method of radiation Cooling adapted to computer calculation is introduced.
Nor did it prohibit the commercial sale of other items used for sexual gratification, such as ribbed condoms or vibrators that were primarily intended to relieve muscle tension but could also be adapted for sexual purposes.
Book “on the plan recommended by Mr. Locke,” was published in 1839, which had been already preceded by “a selection from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, adapted to the Hamiltonian system, by a literal and interlineal translation,” published by James Hamilton, the author of the Hamiltonian system. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
The rub can be adapted for lamb chops, cutlets or a whole shoulder or leg. Times, Sunday Times
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. Henry David Thoreau
And among fishes, the family of the _Cyprinidae_ are the best adapted to our purpose; for we must select those which are both hardy and tamable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
He's been modifying consoles for a year and says he's adapted, otherwise known as 'modded' BBC News - Home
It's called a scintillation counter, and it's been specially adapted for this search. CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006
Dolphins, for example, descend from a hoofed mammal that adapted to life in the ocean about 50 million years ago.
-- - Here be two arblasts, comrades, with windlaces and quarrells The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it. -- - to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain. Ivanhoe. A Romance
Woodlands are the butcherbird's natural habitat, but like many similar species they have adapted well to urbanisation and can be found in leafy suburbs.
Louis Begley is perhaps currently best known as the author of About Schmidt, the novel from which the recent acclaimed film starring Jack Nicholson was adapted.
The show runs until January 25 and is adapted from the much loved classic book by Philippa Pearce.
Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do.
Well, it seems I have adapted my daughter's favored method of coping.
Finally, and most controversially, it covers everyday, unadapted items, which are capable of being used to cause injury.
These adapted themselves to a life in and out of work since they had a strong street culture with which to identify.
The saltbush Atriplex halimus is a chenopodiaceous plant well adapted to dry saline habitats and widely distributed in the Mediterranean Basin.
Seen from a reasonable standpoint that is a very bad condition to be in, for such people become so unadapted that they have to be confined.
Smith's style has an agitated energy that is nicely extended to the Chalfens, but it is rather unadaptable, or at least unadapted to the book's more nuanced characters, who are seen in the same constant light.
Older traditions of internationalism and isolationism have been revived and adapted to post-cold war conditions.
The psalmist had adapted this picture to refer to the spiritual offerings of prayer, praise and proclamation.
Some of the best and most widely adapted annual cut flowers with the longest vase life include alstroemeria, aster, cosmos, snapdragon, sunflower, yarrow, and zinnia.
And fuzzy control can be well adapted to parameter variation while the steady-state error is inevitable.
It is composed of species adapted to the urban environment and is influenced strongly by the availability of seeds.
Many software companies have adapted popular programs to the new operating system.
This is why MGM was the echt Hollywood studio of the first half of the century, its scripts adapted from nineteenth-century novels by Tolstoy and Dickens, its gowns by Adrian, and its sets by Cedric Gibbons.
The Cambrian fossil record suggests that many metazoans were macroscopic and adapted for life in the macrobenthos.
We live in a small bungalow specially adapted for my wife, so we don't have the space. The Sun
They were adapted to running down prey before spear throwers or bows were invented.
Cummins notes that humans are particularly good at deontic reasoning, that is reasoning about obligations and rights, because our minds have adapted to negotiate the uncertainties of dominance hierarchy.
I have ordered them not of chintz, but moreen, which is against your taste, and hardly according to my own; but the latter article proved on enquiry to be far the thriftier as well as the most comfortable; and therefore the best adapted for our purpose. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
While the current version can only raise the alarm, it could be adapted to corner an intruder if the customer wanted…
Rajasthani palaces with their open-sided rooms and fluid spaces were admirably adapted to the hot, dry climate, and the ornamental features such as cusped arches and bangladar roofs represent a fusion of Hindu and Mughal styles.
The children put on a play adapted from a Russian folk tale.
It is another case of Hollywood immersing its hand in the bag of ‘Plan B's ‘where the yet unadapted TV series seem to reside.’
So was terahertz imaging, which is now adapted to 'see through' clothing in airport security checks. Times, Sunday Times
Patrick, as a novelist, how was the experience of having your work adapted to film?
Ellen" is an anime-looking voluptuous mannequin that's been adapted to house a PC. Boing Boing: May 4, 2003 - May 10, 2003 Archives
sells" potassium nitrate, and Block's attempted limitation of the staple / nonstaple inquiry to that mere ingredient would eliminate the § 271 (c) - mandated inquiries relating to whether what was actually sold was a material part of the invention and whether the seller knew that what was actually sold was especially made or adapted for use in infringement of the patent. Promote the Progress - Patent case bibliographic summaries
The genus Homo adapted flexibly to new environments and ate a variety of foods, heralding the rise of people.
Most of these tools have been specially adapted for use by disabled people.
They were an active and diverse group that adapted themselves to whatever they were faced with.
Is he keen on films being adapted into plays, then? Times, Sunday Times
It adapted itself to the current fashions for folksong style, the ballad, and finally ragtime and jazz idioms.
The script, full of quotable treats and ice-cool Mitchum narration, was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (under the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes) from his own novel. Eric’s Top 10 Movies You Can Watch Over and Over Again » Scene-Stealers
Blood-borne markers have been studied for many years in humans and assays have recently been adapted for use in equines.
For example, what's been regarded as merely one species of beetle - with biotypes adapted to different areas - may actually be several different species.
They skilfully adapted traditional beliefs and customs to European material culture and economic realities.
He discovers that he himself has become so well adapted to the Inuit way of life that he is no longer a "Kabloona" and has become one of them.
But his autocratic style proved ill adapted to the turbulence of the 1960s.
Organisms living in that environment would, of necessity, be specifically adapted to coping with a very soft, semi-fluid bottom.
It seems the children quickly appreciated their own limitations and adapted their speed and movements to their abilities.
This same equipment can be adapted for use with soap and water for pressure cleaning such as degreasing auto engines and lawn and garden equipment.
The trailing end has a height greater than the maximum height of the disc space forming a flanged portion adapted to overlie a part of the anterior aspects of the vertebral bodies adjacent and proximate the disc space to be fused.
Many software companies have adapted popular programs to the new operating system.
Irrigation equipment has been adapted for disposal of liquid manure and wastewaters on cropland.
A ballad flying from voice to voice across the country, sung at the ingle-neuk, repeated from one to another in the little crowd at a "stairhead," in which the grossest humorous view was the best adapted for the people, represented popular literature. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do.
During the 1950s further work on marine guidance was adapted for use in ballistic missiles.
The professor adapted his lecture to his audience.
The pheasant is a beautiful bird and though not native still has adapted very well to living in the Irish countryside.
He who will carefully examine the flowers of orchids for himself will not deny the existence of the above series of gradationsfrom a mass of pollen-grains merely tied together by threads, with the stigma differing but little from that of an ordinary flower, to a highly complex pollinium, admirably adapted for transportal by insects; nor will he deny that all the gradations in the several species are admirably adapted in relation to the general structure of each flower for its fertilisation by different insects. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
‘Un Secret, a movie about ordinary Jewish people in extraordinarily savage times, is a current success with French moviegoers, and Claude Miller, who adapted the film from Philippe Grimbert’s eponymous novel, is surprised. Vitro Nasu » 2008 » January
Following are adapted excerpts from a very long letter he wrote to a novice who had given up the military life for clerical garb. Christianity Today
Using a bioreactor, a device commonly used in laboratories on Earth but specially adapted for use in space, the team wants to investigate the factors that make human cells grow in three dimensions.
The game is spinoff from the Koihime † Musō: Doki — Otome Darake no Sangokushi Engi game, which has already been adapted into a television anime series (Koihime Muso) and a video anime. Anime Preview: Fall 2009 « Undercover
The story has been adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's classic original and had songs interwoven for the stage version.
Our Southwest deserts are home to endangered Sonoran pronghorn antelopes, desert tortoises, kangaroo rats, pupfish, springsnails, and other desert species that are adapted to very specialized niches and therefore particularly vulnerable to changes in climate and habitat. Leda Huta: A Marshall Plan for Nature: How to Protect Endangered Species from Climate Change
A shoplifter went prepared for thieving with a specially adapted carrier bag designed to stop alarms going off.
This (p. xxiii) portrait presents an _alto-rilievo_ which is well adapted for medals only; it is conceived in the spirit of the French school, which has always attached great importance to the truthful rendering of flesh. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
It resulted in a basically feudal and totalitarian system of government that exists today in an adapted form. Drug-Free Pain Relief
Future research should focus on such traits of cowbird relatives and on how these traits preadapted a particular lineage to become parasites.
Besides the dances common among us, a sort of fandango is a favourite here: it is expressly adapted to display the graces of a fine figure to the best advantage, and is danced by two persons, whose picturesque attitudes and motions are accompanied on the guitar, and by tender songs, according in expression with the pantomimical representations of the dance. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1
They said their set-up could someday be adapted to help disabled people operate a motorized wheelchair or artificial limb.
It's quite mad, and the texts are adapted from unpublished writings Edward sent the band expressly for the purpose, shortly before his lamented death.
The Sarykum barkhan which is a unique refuge for flora adapted to the loose sands of the ancient Central Asian deserts. Caspian lowland desert
From about 1940 Burnet's main interest in virology was influenza virus. 9 He showed that influenza virus could be isolated from human cases by inoculation of throat washings into the amniotic sac, and a year later that virus isolated in this way could be quickly adapted to grow in the allantoic sac. The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
A newly unearthed fossil is the missing link between land and marine mammals: Standing two to three feet tall on legs adapted to wade through shallow water, the 48-million-year-old Indohyus is the missing link between modern-day whales and their land-lubbing ancestors. Science Is Nifty
There is, however, with us, an inclination to apply this word particularly to those purer and more compact sorts which are adapted for fuel, while to the lighter, less decomposed or more weathered kinds, and to those which are considerably intermixed with soil or silt, the term muck or swamp muck is given. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel
However, the Buddhists adapted their practices to include the Confucian custom of ancestor worship.
Spreading through the plantation system, Protestant Christianity was adopted and adapted by African-American slaves and freedmen and most of their descendants.
Existing photopolymer processors can be adapted to serve as clean-out units, making Agfa's Azura V system a versatile, lower cost solution. Graphic Arts Online - Premedia News
A demand thus arises for elaborate and costly manufactured articles, adapted to a narrow but a wealthy market.
They are derived loosely from the Christian just war tradition and more recently adapted in the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine R2P, which abridges state sovereignty and the inviolability of borders in favor of protecting populations from barbarous governments. Monica Duffy Toft: Does The U.S. Have A Responsibility To Protect The Libyan People?
Their bills are adapted for removing seeds from cones, and they start at the bottom of a cone and spiral upward, prying open each scale and removing the seeds with their tongues.
Its wide ambulacral grooves and open filtration fan made it adapted for motile particle capture in a wide variety of environments.
The clearest examples are certain mosquito species in which the mouthparts of males are adapted for drinking nectar and those of females for imbibing blood.
The powerful mortgage lenders quickly adapted, introducing and aggressively marketing products such as teaser adjustable-rate and interest-only mortgages.
The professor adapted his lecture to his audience.
In every way it is adapted to the conditions of the pampas in a far greater degree than other pampean birds, only excepting the rufous and spotted tinamous. The Naturalist in La Plata
It was just adapted for the removal of trees by attaching the bucket to the rear.
The morphological differences are genetically determined and it is thus possible that the turlough population is a distinct ecotype adapted to this unusual habitat.
They said China probably wouldn't be able to make the aircraft fully operational until the end of the decade: It appears to be testing at least two prototypes, which will likely be adapted many times before being put into large-scale pro duction. Test Flight Signals Jet Has Reached New Stage
The newfound vents are home to a menagerie of creatures adapted to darkness and crushing water pressures, species that thrive despite waters volcanically heated to near boiling.
Let's deconstruct that in autonomic terms: the windmill adapted its state to the new environment, using the external change as both the power and the alignment for the internal change. Boing Boing: May 11, 2003 - May 17, 2003 Archives
My novel "The Rector's Wife" is being adapted for TV, with Lindsay Duncan in the title role.
In this paper, a theoretical Calculation method of radiation Cooling adapted to computer calculation is introduced.
The Al concentration is adapted to equilibrium with gibbsite.
A metronomical performance is certainly tiresome and nonsensical; time and rhythm must be adapted to and identified with the melody, the harmony, the accent and the poetry ... Letters
For the most part, they have adapted well, but their discomfort was growing and confidence faltering. Times, Sunday Times
It can also be adapted to rolling-cart workstations.
There is a danger of honing a technique that becomes adapted for facing machines rather human beings. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, they created highly original relief panels to decorate the Sebasteion as well as other sculpture that adapted earlier models for different purposes.
Originally he worked in black-and-white, but he adapted well to the photomechanical colour processes that came in at the end of the 19th century and was one of the pioneers of the full-colour picture book for children.
Culture medium and cell-surface enzymes were extracted according to a method adapted from Wallner and Nevins.
This recipe is adapted from his artichoke pie.
Feric adapted a drill so that it could bore two holes allowing the probe to seat.
What this suggests is that the human omnivore is exquisitely adapted to a wide range of food and diets. Times, Sunday Times
Red Dragon is adapted from the Thomas Harris novel of the same name.
This kind of meat panada is well adapted as a nutritious and easily-digested kind of food for old people who have lost the power of mastication, and also for very young children. A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
It is known that crochet galloon machines consist of a number of cooperating members adapted to create a fabric.
The hand gun carried by the first man was a Webley revolver adapted to fire shot gun cartridges.
The man and the congregation caught change on the wing, adapted and filled a vacuum created by forces not everyone understood.
Dynamism in general may be adapted to and modified by such philosophical systems as determinism or freedom, substantialism or phenomenalism, idealism or realism, monism or theism, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Variations between the British and American editions include a certain amount of translation (lolly becomes popsicle), the respelling of a sound effect (` wop! 'becomes ` whop!' throughout) and an extra 400 words are added to chapter 21, adapted from radio Episode Ten, concerning ` Belgium 'as term of profanity. Don't Panic
Standard procedures for candidate selection and nomination often have to be adapted to local conditions.
Many of them flourish in a broad range of habitats, and nearly all of them are adapted for wide dispersal.
The population will have ‘responded’ and become ‘adapted,’ but only because the genetic information coding for waxier cuticles and deeper roots was already present.
Elsewhere buildings were adapted for surprising purposes. Times, Sunday Times
It looks a lot like a beaver - hairy body, flat tail, limbs and webbed feet adapted for swimming - but it lived 164 million years ago.
This chili is adapted from the Smithsonian Cookbook of Native American foods and recipes, Foods of the Americas, which I have out from the library at the moment. Toast:
The book is being adapted for the silver screen.
A study was done to determine if various organic acids differ in their inhibitory or lethal activity against acid-adapted and unadapted Escherichia coli.
They could notionally be adapted, reconfigured and resurfaced over time for new tenants. Times, Sunday Times
They adapted to the variable bounce, and then launched into the bowlers in a flurry of cuts, sweeps, drives and lofts over the infield.
We can ¦ define the adaptedness [a synonym for expected fitness] of an organism O in an environment Fitness
He guides himself with his well-adapted nose, and is hoping to conquer Mont Blanc next. RESCUING ROSE
The post is adapted to her ability.
Their tricuspid teeth (three sharp points per tooth) are especially adapted to feed on organisms with hard shells such as clams, snails, crabs and shrimp.
Some adjustment will be required, as prior rules and procedures are adapted to a new kind of transnational conflict.
The basic recipe can be adapted by adding grated lemon.
A few years ago I recommended carefully conducted dyeing trials on woolen cloth mordanted with bichromate of potash as the best and simplest mode adapted to such cases, and my subsequent experience enables me to confirm that observation to the fullest extent. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
Lord of the Flies is another in a long line of films adapted from various print material.
But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. Trauma and Recovery
The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres. Archive 2007-01-01
He has taken the autobiographical genre and adapted it to suit his own particular requirements.
Lasky admitted charges of possessing a CS gas canister and possessing a weapon adapted to discharge a noxious substance.
She adapted quickly to the new climate.
Hanging aloes are adapted to a pensile life.
This potato-masher, which can also serve as a grinder, is one of several small-scale machines adapted by CIP for use in family-based processing enterprises. 1. The jab-seeder a tool for manual seeding
Book “on the plan recommended by Mr. Locke,” was published in 1839, which had been already preceded by “a selection from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, adapted to the Hamiltonian system, by a literal and interlineal translation,” published by James Hamilton, the author of the Hamiltonian system. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
The bryophytes that, prima facie, might be expected to be best adapted to photosynthesize under high light conditions are the species of mires, springs and other wet habitats, which remain constantly moist in full sun.
Adapted from Colette's eponymous novel, the film follows the affair of Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired, luscious courtesan in her fifty's, and Cheri (Rupert Friend), the exquisite, wanton son of a rival demimondaine (Kathy Bates). Erica Abeel: The Cheatin' Heart of Cheri
Their digestive tract is adapted to break down fairly large bones such as the femur of the chamois, the small, goatlike antelope of the Alps.
It came to me when I saw the picture of husky racing in Grizedale in last week's Gazette and I have suitably adapted it to give a flavour of my idea.
Nevertheless, the parties did undergo some transformation as they adapted to a changing political climate.
This old man wears a hat, a thumbed and napless and yet an obdurate hat, which has never adapted itself to the shape of his poor head. Little Dorrit
A snowclone is a popular sentence structure which is recycled and adapted from the original quote by replacing key words. Mind Hacks: Keeping tabs on the english language
All their music is either arranged and adapted or composed by the group members, producing a most individual and imaginative sound.
Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart. Brother, I'm Dying: Summary and book reviews of Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat.
Bester told Judge Siraj Desai that he thought it was ‘a bit odd’ to be meeting in the specially-adapted strongroom.
In December 1835, a volunteer Texan force drove government troops out of San Antonio and settled in around the Alamo, a mission compound adapted to military purposes after the 1790s.
33 The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it. Ivanhoe
Many wheat breeders were successful in breeding semi-dwarf, high-yielding varieties that were well adapted to intensive agriculture.
D'Albert's strongest point is his orchestration, which is admirably adapted to the text. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
The movie was adapted from a novel.
Soon, however, it became clear that the ostensorium could be better adapted to the object of drawing all eyes to the Sacred The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
Its success led to the even longer and more expensive The Jewel in the Crown, adapted from Paul Scott's tetralogy about the Indian Raj.
Attempts to identify the selection forces driving up intelligence in the human environment of evolutionary adaptedness EEA often look to the ecological, behavioral, and life history correlates of encephalization, either in the paleontological record or comparative studies of living species. Archive 2005-10-23
Nevertheless, the parties did undergo some transformation as they adapted to a changing political climate.
Reupholstering an existing armchair and draping a round table with pale ivory quilted fabric adapted them to the updated color palette.
But the offspring of those biotech fish are less well adapted to survive.
The word gringo is often said to have originated with invading American soldiers who sang the lyrics from “Green Grow the Rushes, O” in marching cadence, which the Mexicans are supposed to have adapted phonetically. Gringos in Paradise
Enderby Island Shorthorns had adapted to harsh subantarctic conditions.
No tools for hunting, too small and weak to complete with other scavengers, teeth (in the gracile form) unadapted for plant eating, they seem to have been unable to even feed themselves.
Connor's disposition had slowly adapted from one of amusement to one of worry and discomfort.
Could such a device be adapted for domestic use? Times, Sunday Times
The most notable example is a new style that features raglan sleeves, a construction adapted from military wear. Times, Sunday Times
A very important kind of variation is that constitutional change termed acclimatisation, which enables any organism to become gradually adapted to a different climate from the parent stock. Darwinism (1889)
No trait is innate in itself, but “certain parts of the information which underly the adaptedness of the whole, and which can be ascertained by the deprivation experiment, are indeed innate” (Lorenz 1965, 40). The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics
The Firefox Mycroft Project site, in particular, lists hundreds of library catalog search plugins that can be easily adapted in most libraries.
He acknowledged that for the notion of peoplehood to catch on, it will need to be adapted for modern realities and be reconciled with opposing notions like individual identity and ideology. Articles
The dogbane, which is perfectly adapted to the butterfly, and dependent upon it for help in producing fertile seed, ruthlessly destroys all poachers that are not big or strong enough to jerk away from its vise-like grasp. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
These birds are highly adapted to aquatic life. They dive to catch most of their prey (crustaceans, small fish, and cephalopods), and have a gular pouch in which they can carry food.
Suiting the action to the word, he thrust her rather suddenly and prematurely into a chair, and designing to reassure her by a little harmless jocularity, such as is adapted to please and fascinate the sex, converted his right forefinger into an ideal bradawl or gimlet, and made as though he would screw the same into her side — whereat Miss Miggs shrieked again, and evinced symptoms of faintness. Barnaby Rudge
He adapted himself to the cold weather.
Small rodents with cylindrical bodies and short limbs, adapted for burrow-living.
This does not mean that these procedures can not be adapted to classroom use.
This essay is adapted from the afterword of the paperback edition of Of Paradise and Power.
The style of his discourse was adapted to cloisteral disputations, and overloaded with scholastic distinctions. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
There are two kinds of study particularly adapted to preserve the mind and the affections from the assaults of vice and libidinousness. Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
Funds permitting, there are also plans to set up some structures atop the trees as the chimps are very much adapted to an arboreal life.
By this we mean, of course, the natural as distinguished from the nurtural differences -- to use the antithetic terms so usefully adapted by Sir Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
The way we adapted our tactics and coped with the problems was tremendous. Times, Sunday Times
This is the first time the play has been adapted for the big screen .
As a screenwriter who once adapted a book (okay, it was “The Little Engine that Could,” but my screenplay is a WHOLE lot different than the book and for good reasons), I am repeatedly frustrated when people compare a film to the source book and talk about how it “messed up” the novel. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Books into Films
Each impala possesses an antelope ‘toothcomb’, comprising movable canines and incisors, specifically adapted for removing parasites from its coat.
I adapted pretty quick to it so it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
When my only slightly adapted version turned out to be delicious, but kind of slovenly looking, I went back to the magazine article to check on what the professional ones looked like. Savory Rugelach with Olives, Onions, and Capers

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