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Meanwhile, many people living in flood-risk areas have declined to adapt their homes to rising waters, believing that the authorities should take responsibility.
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However, Hopcraft declined the invitation to adapt a sequel, Smiley's People.
In 1947 a Belgian film adaptation of The Crab with the Golden Claws was produced, and believing that cinematic adaptations were a good way to proceed, Hergé contacted Disney Studios in the United States; they declined his offer to adapt The Adventures of Tintin for the silver screen.
Thee following is closely adapted from the testimony Dorian Johnson gave to the Ferguson grand jury, which last night declined to indict officer Darren Wilson.
But at their best these books enable the reader to look at history in a new light.In this section Beyond bootstraps Digital doomsters A sketch, not a portrait Sweet spot In praise of poetry Making space ReprintsTwo American economists, Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane, are just the latest authors to tread the path, arguing that countries decline when they fail to adapt to changing economic forces.
Last year Mr Murdoch warned in a much-noted speech that the industry would inevitably decline if it fails to adapt to the internet.Searching for answers to these problems, Mr Murdoch spent $1.4 billion on three young internet companies in 2005, which, together with News Corporation's existing websites, now form Fox Interactive Media, the division that Mr Levinsohn runs.
This OFT perspective, that situates human societies in a one-way adaptive framework as they are forced to adapt to declining availability of optimal resources, however, is increasingly being called into question.
"Sellers are notoriously slow to adapt to declining market conditions," says Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers. "Another way to look at it is that they're chasing the market down".
That dependence -- as much as 85percentt of its budget in recent years -- along with the inability of its leadership to adapt to declining revenues eventually sealed the organization's fate, those familiar with the association's operations said.
Primary ageing is not attributed to a specific cause and is referred to currently expected sum of changes, physiological, genetic, and molecular, that occurs with the passage of time from fertilization to death (slow movements, declining vision and hearing, inability to adapt to stress, decrease in resistance to infections, and others).
Dr. Huttenlocher's research, rooted in work he began in the 1970s on samples of cerebral cortex taken from human cadavers, helped establish the brain as an adaptive organism — neural plasticity, as it is called — but one in which the ability to adapt declines with age.
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The phrase "declined to adapt" functions as a verb phrase indicating a subject's refusal or choice not to adjust to a new situation or requirement. As Ludwig AI confirms, it is correct and usable in written English. It asserts a deliberate action, or lack thereof, regarding adaptation.
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