Sentence examples for have long adapted from inspiring English sources

Silvia Lindtner, an ethnographer at University of California, Irvine and Shanghai's Fudan University, notes that shanzhai producers have long adapted mobile phones to the needs of people in the developing world.

In reality, France is divided: between those in the private sector who have long adapted to the market in their working lives, and those in the public sector who may accept globalisation as consumers in their free time but not while toiling at their desks.But what happens to former public-sector workers whose enterprises have been privatised?

Cuba's electronic musicians have long adapted to alternative styles of creating music, straddling a world between modern computer-driven compositions and their country's own traditional sounds.

Venues have long adapted to what's happening around them, for as long as there are gays in 21st century London, there will be bars, clubs and other venues to be found.

Business travelers and other frequent fliers, who had long adapted stoically to whatever new security hurdles were thrown in their paths, were no longer reacting with equanimity.

Many artists have long since adapted to the idea that recordings will no longer be their biggest source of income, even if they may be the foundation around which the artists build a more diversified career.

Dick's sci-fi novels have long been adapted for both TV and film, including Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which became Ridley Scott's Blade Runner; We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, which was adapted as Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger; and Minority Report, which became the film of the same name directed by Steven Spielberg.

Microbes have long been adapted for the biosynthetic production of useful compounds.

In the business sector most new tech companies have been living with falling prices for years, and many commodity producers and manufacturers have long since adapted to negative pricing power.

Young Vietnamese-Americans have long experience adapting the banh mi to local conditions.

Carriers have long had to adapt to economic cycles, shifting trade patterns and geopolitics.