Sentence examples for adapt a term from inspiring English sources
This admittedly radical position might be called, to adapt a term from the world of tennis, the extreme Western gripe.
These strategies, used in combination, are characteristic of effective in extremis negotiators, to adapt a term from Colonel Thomas Kolditz, a professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the author of In Extremis Leadership.
Which one of these groups an organisation falls into is dependent on its reputation elasticity of demand - to adapt a term from elementary economics - or the extent to which an improvement or deterioration in its reputation precipitates an increase or decrease in demand for its products or services.
She calls the act of artistic vandalism "yarn bombing," adapting a term for plastering an area with graffiti tags.
Its most ambitious endeavor was a skyscraper that Nouvel (adapting a term from the artist Brancusi) called the "tour sans fins," or endless tower.
It takes what anthropologist Grant McCracken, adapting a term from the Protestant Reformation, calls "things indifferent" — differences that should not matter, that should not threaten social peace — and makes them polarizing issues.
To adapt a scientific term, here was the human version of allomothering -- caring for non-maternal offspring.
"The countries of the Region, therefore, are to adapt a long-term integrated strategic planning approach and a Road Map for the sustainable development of RSA, to achieve a healthier environment for a superior quality of life for all the people" (emphasis added, p. 29).
Plantinga calls this the sensus divinitatis, using or perhaps adapting (Helm 1998)—a term of Calvin's.
For instance, potential for performing in a leadership role at the executive level requires strategic thinking and the ability to adapt an organization for the long-term future.
Recently, while performing a large-scale comparative analysis of stress-responsive genes (n = 3091) in Arabidopsis thaliana, 6 we realized this challenge and adapted a widely used GO term enrichment analysis tool (Ontologizer 2.0) to perform phenomic enrichment analyses using genes from STIFB2.
