Sentence examples for adapt the term from inspiring English sources

We adapt the term 'Firewall,' in the context of gerrymandering, to describe a districting plan that artificially protects the power of a political party.

This paper revisits the mainstream definitions of 'ethnic enclave', by taking into account new approaches that can be used to adapt the term to the dynamics of global economy and to disassociate it from a territorially fixed and circumscribed place.

Water companies are allowed to adapt the terms of the ban for their customers.

We have taken care to adapt the terms to the intended target audience, i.e. professional developers, not researchers.

The story goes: Ghanaian soldiers at the American base adopted – and adapted – the term, turning Charlie into chale.

John Grierson, a Scottish educator who had studied mass communication in the United States, adapted the term in the mid-1920s from the French word documentaire.

Plato adapted the term, which in ancient Greece had originally been the ordinary word for "craftsman," or "artisan" (broadly interpreted to include not only manual workers but also heralds, soothsayers, and physicians), and which in the 5th century bc had come to designate certain magistrates or elected officials.

Schneider adapts the term "temporal drag" from Elizabeth Freeman's work and returns to it throughout the book, most interestingly in her investigation of performance and photography in Chapter Five.

In other words, adapting the term from the network literature [29], we can say that we find evidence of a very strong simplicial closure: in the great majority of cases whenever three authors have collaborated in pairs, they also have collaborated on a paper together.

^ Theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman adapted the term "adjacent possible" from chemistry.

Being familiar with the works of Virgil and Ovid and seeing an analogy that fit with his naming scheme, Linnaeus adapted the term "lemur" for these nocturnal primates.