And the International Olympic Committee insists that running tracks and other venues be "just so," with little inclination to adapt to what's already there.
His manuscript is a hybrid, combining the premise of Orthodox Judaism -- that the commandments were given directly by God at Mount Sinai -- with Conservatism's inclination to adapt the strictures to modern sensibilities.
The traditionalists, characterized by high affinity for orthodox religious beliefs and little inclination to adapt them to a changing world, bear the closest resemblance to what has been labeled the Christian right, whose most visible spokesmen have been figures like the Rev. Jerry Falwell and the television evangelist Pat Robertson, Dr. Green said.
Microsoft so far has shown no inclination to adapt Word, Excel and other programs in its Office suite to run on Linux.
The best government, he says, is that "which attains its purpose with the least trouble", and "controls men in the manner best adapted to their inclinations and desires" (Letter 80).
Obama plans to talk about America as a place of limitless possibility and about the country's natural inclination to innovate, adapt to a changing environment and dream big, say senior aides who have been helping him put the speech together.
Lynn Zelevansky, who helped curate a 1998 traveling show that fueled Kusama's re-emergence, notes that Kusama's inclination was always "to adapt to what life offered".
Knowledge of physiological lower-limb roll-over characteristics on ramped surfaces may help in the development of biomimetic prostheses and orthoses that will automatically adapt to changes in walking surface inclination.
We hypothesized that the ankle foot system would adapt to the various surfaces, creating a roll-over shape that would change in orientation with different levels of inclination.
For example, a strong inclination towards connecting operations with process responses will eventually increase the capability of the whole system to adapt to external disturbances.
