Adapting Sentence Examples

After a short period of adapting himself to the old conditions of life, Nicholas found it very pleasant to be at home again.

He introduced a system which, so far as we know, was his own, though founded upon the Epicurean philosophical creed; on the practical side it conformed pretty closely to the Stoic rule of life, thus adapting itself to the leanings of the better stamp of Romans in the later times of the republic. According to Asclepiades all diseases depended upon alterations in the size, number, arrangement or movement of the "atoms," of which, according to the doctrine of Epicurus, the body consisted.

She certainly is adapting her career to documenting his or her works and doing a good job of it as far as I can see.

Improvements in the plough, harrow and roller were introduced, adapting those implements to different soils and purposes.

The Phantom Tollbooth's immense popularity over the years has resulted in several people adapting the story.

Essentially, this means that it assists the body in adapting to all forms of stress - physical, mental and emotional.

Google Sketch Up - Google Sketch Up is a free, 3D design tool, and adapting to use for your bedroom design is possible.

If you're considering adapting your diet to include more raw options, raw food diet testimonials can help you decide whether this way of eating is right for you.

After all, chances are good that you're busy settling into a new home and adapting to married life.

Think about adapting existing recipes and decorating techniques and putting a spin on what you already know to create a few delicious cakes that are ideal for this ghoulish holiday.

Paula recently wrote an award-winning, middle-grade short story that we're about to start expanding and adapting to a feature-length, family film.

You can learn helpful skills for adapting to new situations, and it can offer an intriguing perspective on being the outsider.

This often involves abiding by stringent federal and local regulations, learning ever-evolving technologies, and adapting to new trends in building and interior design.

Follow the tips below to make adapting to progressive lenses much easier.

Occupational therapist-A healthcare provider who specializes in adapting the physical environment to meet a patient's needs.

A score in the 4-6 range indicates that the neonate is having difficulty adapting to extrauterine life, which in some cases may be related to medications given to the mother during labor, prematurity, or a rapid delivery.

Compulsive personalities are conscientious, reliable, dependable, orderly, and methodical, but with an inflexibility that often makes them incapable of adapting to changing circumstances.

Although there is no risk and much potential benefit to the use of GFD for treatment of celiac disease, the widespread use of gluten-containing grains in Western cultures makes adapting to a gluten-free diet challenging.

These children tended to withdraw from new stimuli and had difficulty adapting to change, but their reactions were of mild intensity and gradually became either neutral or positive with repeated exposures to the new event or person.

Studies have shown that children with very active fantasies tend to have personality traits that contribute to creativity-originality, spontaneity, verbal fluency, and a higher degree of flexibility in adapting to new situations.

Basic hair style considerations apply to any hair color, and it is important to remember them before adapting a style simply to highlight a new shade of blonde.

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The muscles below your uterus are also adapting and stretching beyond their usual size.

Using and adapting candle scent oil recipes is the perfect way to create your own fragrances.

Mutable signs do not feature the solidity of the fixed quadruplicity, nor do they possess the drive of the cardinal, but their predilection towards adapting makes them eager to learn and solution-oriented.

Where appropriate, suggestions are given for adapting the game to children of different age levels.

While your personality type may at first lead you towards being a permissive parent, your children may benefit from you adapting your style into a more authoritative type of parent.

In its debut season, Private Practice episodes focused on Addison's relocation to Los Angeles from Seattle and her adapting to a new business model from surgeon to caregiver.

Some Celtic tattoos are created by adapting the knots into the shape of a butterfly.

If you would like to have a moon star fairy tattoo, but you don't relish spending more time under the needle than you have too, adapting a current tattoo may be the answer.

Pixies are unique mystical creatures with specific design elements that are perfect for adapting into a tattoo design.

The key to adapting good postures in Pilates is perfecting the spine/abdominal imprint.

The importance of protein cannot be overlooked when adapting this plan to your food intake.

A highlight of this book are the guidelines for adapting a traditional recipe into a diabetic recipe.

Adapting healthy eating habits for a lifetime is preferred rather than a short term deprivation diet.

You can still incorporate low fat and low salt principles in your diet without strictly adapting to this diet.

This argument makes sense to an extent, since the body is very good at adapting to new challenges.

Exercise is a modern-day equivalent of stress, keeping the body fit for adapting to change.

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You may have to do a fair bit of adapting, but in the end, you should have a beautiful piece of lingerie that is very much all yours.

Although Franklin was one of the biggest stars of the 1960s, her success declined sharply during the 1970s, when Franklin resisted adapting her musical style to maintain pace with the times.

Instead, find a show that is looking for someone like you instead of adapting your personality to what you think they want.

Instinctive, powerful, and light-footed, he twirled the bo as if it was an extension of him, adapting to his opponent and absorbing any blows that fell to him without flinching.

But Samuel's fame rests on the service which he rendered in adapting the life of the Jews of the diaspora to the law of the land.

Flies seem capable of adapting themselves to extremes of cold equally as well as to those of heat, and species belonging to the order are almost invariably included in the collections brought back by members of Arctic expeditions.

Pope Damasus himself displayed great zeal in adapting the catacombs to their new purpose, restoring the works of art on the walls, and renewing the epitaphs over the graves of the martyrs.

He was thoroughly acquainted with the routine work of the office and the established armament of the navy, but he had not the power of adapting himself to the changes which were being called for, and still less of initiating them; so that during his period of office the armament of the ships remained sadly behind the general advance.

In England the pine is largely employed as a " nurse " for oak trees, its conical growth when young admirably adapting it for this purpose; its dense foliage renders it valuable as a shelter tree for protecting land from the wind; it stands the sea gales better than most conifers, but will not flourish on the shore like some other species.

He supported himself by adapting Greek plays for the Roman stage from the new comedy writers, especially Menander.

But the initial difficulties of the vast field of operations were greatly increased by the want of skill of the British leaders in adapting themselves to new conditions, while even loyalist sentiment was shocked by the employment of German mercenaries and Red Indian savages against men of English blood.

The first of these great budgets, in 1860, was partly inspired by the necessity of adapting the fiscal system to meet the requirements of a conimercial treaty which, mainly through Cobdens exertions, had been concluded with the emperor of the French.

The chiefs and people have shown considerable aptitude in adapting themselves to the new order of things.

Such an instrument was made as early as 1590 by Zacharias Jansen of Middleburg; and although Galileo discovered, in 1610, a means of adapting his telescope to the examination of minute objects, he did not become acquainted with the compound microscope until 1624 when he saw one of Drebbel's instruments in Rome, and, with characteristic ingenuity, immediately introduced some material improvements into its construction.

The above-mentioned delusion that climate is changing and adapting itself to agriculture, thus relieving the farmer of accommodating his methods to the climate, has considerably handicapped him in progress.

By adapting to this instrument various ingenious devices he was enabled to employ it in a great variety of investigations, connected especially with photometry, hygroscopy and the temperature of space.

The system of Porro prisms employed affords a convenient method of adapting the ends of the eyepieces to the interpupillary distance.

Anshan needs her, but she can't stay where it's so unsafe, and she isn't adapting the way she should be, A'Ran said.

Recognizing these changes in its customer base, Medirest is adapting its menus to ensure they respond to a wide range of popular tastes.

They enjoyed the challenge of working through problems, adapting their design rather than growing despondent.

The BBC has once again done a masterful job of adapting the novel to the format of radio drama.

Now, after encouraging dinner parties to discuss the full-stop, Lynne Truss is adapting her bestseller eats, Shoots & Leaves for children.

At once highbrow and lowbrow, it has a way of adapting its identity to fulfill the desires of its visitors.

Veteran Hollywood screenwriter Robin Swicord does a superb job of adapting Arthur Golden's bestselling novel to the big screen.

However, those families who were council tenants often said that their authorities obliged them to move rather than adapting their present property.

The works are constructed by adapting formal graphic principles, largely based on perspectival and orthographic projections, often parodying GUI layouts.

Al is particularly good at adapting his humor to the audience - he can be clean, very saucy or something between the two!

The Team would learn first hand about new cultures and environments; adapting to new surroundings while learning self-reliance and inter-dependency.

He then sequenced his ideas on to the computer adapting the melody to reflect a Blues style, using syncopation.

They are a wonderfully versatile pair adapting themselves to a kicking or running game with equal facility.

I don't know what people are talking about when they say westerners have trouble understanding or adapting to these philosophies.

In the Principles of Biology the most notable points are the definition of life as the continuous adjustment of internal to external relations, and the consequent emphasis on the need of adapting the organism to its environment.

Quick on the uptake, he transferred the tube quest to Hamburg (adapting the rules slightly in the process).

It was available free and costs incurred by agents in adapting their own systems would, in his view, be recouped by savings.

Al is particularly good at adapting his humor to the audience - he can be clean, very saucy or something between the two !

I do n't know what people are talking about when they say Westerners have trouble understanding or adapting to these philosophies.

You'll be sleep-deprived, and your baby will be adapting to all of the changes her development has in store for her.

For older children, learning to live with one parent and adapting to his or her personality traits may be easier than trying to fit in with two parents.

Their survival is due to their success with adapting to the social changes over time.

It is very capable of entertaining itself and adapting to changes in the household, including travel and cat-friendly dogs.

However, bridal stores traditionally offer try-on samples in a size 8!Fortunately, some companies are adapting to meet the changing needs of their clientele.

Its branches have a prostrate habit, apparently adapting it to such conditions.

His peculiar strength lay in his power of adapting himself to audiences of every kind, and throughout his public career he was highly appreciated by all classes of society.

At first an attempt was made to make Maltese a literary language by adapting the Arabic characters to record it in print.

Nansen perfected the instrument, adapting it not only for enclosing a portion of water at any desired depth, but by a series of concentric divisions insulating in the central compartment water at the temperature it had at the moment of collection.

Since the functions of these organizations were commercial, for which the regular Government officials were unsuited, they were established as commercial joint-stock companies under peculiar conditions adapting them to the service of the state.

In 1860 he was made vizier and pasha, and entrusted with the government of Nisch, where his reforms were so beneficial that the sultan charged him, in conjunction with Fuad Pasha and Ali Pasha, to prepare the scheme for adapting them to the empire which was afterwards known as the law of the vilayets.

The ingenuity of nature, however, in adapting animals is not infinite, because the same devices are repeatedly employed by her to accomplish the same adaptive ends whether in fishes, reptiles, birds or mammals; thus she has repeated herself at least twenty-four times in the evolution of long-snouted rapacious swimming types of animals.

In the former of these works he shows plainly his intention of adapting his language and reasoning to Gentile, and iri the latter to Jewish, readers.

But, in thus adapting to his own purposes the Leibnitzian analysis of material into immaterial, he drew his own conclusions according to his own metaphysics, which required that the supposed centres of force are not Leibnitzian " monads," nor Herbartian " reals," nor divine modifications such as Lotze afterwards supposed, but are elements of a system which in outer aspect is bodily and in inner aspect is spiritual, and obeying laws of spirit.

According to him, whatever inferences we make, certain or uncertain, are mere economies of thought, adapting ideas to sensations, and filling out the gaps of experience by ideas; whatever we infer, whether bodies, or molecules, or atoms, or space of more than three dimensions, are all without distinction equally provisional conceptions, things of thought; and " bodies or things are compendious mental symbols for groups of sensations - symbols which do not exist outside thought."

The management of the furnaces is relatively easy, and consists in adapting the volume and intensity of the fires to particular needs.

These are mostly of great beauty, and show remarkable skill in the use of the hammer, as well as power in adapting the design to the requirements of the material.

On the whole, however, Aristotle, Bacon and Mill, purged from their errors, form one empirical school, gradually growing by adapting itself to the advance of science; a school in which Aristotle was most influenced by Greek deductive Mathematics, Bacon by the rise of empirical physics at the Renaissance, and Mill by the Newtonian combination of empirical facts and mathematical principles in the Principia.

A large literature is produced, reconciling science and theology by softening and compromising and adapting; a procedure in accordance with general historical development, for men do not love sharp antagonisms, nor are they prepared to carry principles to their logical conclusions.

The difficulty of adapting the long wanderings of Ulysses to a plan of this type is got over by the device - first met with in the Odyssey - of making the hero tell the story of his own adventures.

Was the process one of spontaneous growth adapting an already existing social organization to a new order of things; or was it originated and perpetuated by regulation from above?

He speaks Finnish with Finns, Mongolian with Buriats, Ostiak with Ostiaks; he shows remarkable facility in adapting his agricultural practices to new conditions, without, however, abandoning the village community; he becomes hunter, cattle-breeder or fisherman, and carries on these occupations according to local usage; he modifies his dress and adapts his religious beliefs to the locality he inhabits.