Sentence examples for idea adapted from inspiring English sources

And perhaps bad theology, too, since it runs counter to the idea, adapted by Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, that God is best explained in terms of analogy.

It's a schmaltzy idea, adapted from a short story by Craig Davidson, but in the hands of the excellent leads it becomes strangely affecting, a deserving winner of the best film award at the London film festival.

That money should allow Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Chief Raymond Kelly to accelerate their work on two security "rings" — an idea adapted from London's "Ring of Steel" — that deploy cameras and other surveillance equipment around the city.

Tolstoy based the prescription against oaths (including promises) on an idea adapted from his early work: the impossibility of knowing the future and therefore the danger of binding oneself in advance.

An advanced generalization of this idea, adapted to the needs of algebraic geometry, is the étale fundamental group.

In a neat trick worthy of one of her parent-child-generosity novels, Rodgers gave her son his most successful idea: adapting Elizabeth Spencer's 1960 novella "The Light in the Piazza".

You might have an unchallenged opportunity to take a new technology or a new idea, adapt it, and make yourself the expert in your own field.

In the 1970s, a graduate student in molecular biology, Jon Kabat-Zintriguedigued by Buddhist ideas, adapted a version of its meditative practice that could be easily learned and studied.

He evolved: he started as a very Italian-style coach but had no problem tweaking those initial ideas, adapting to players, culture and styles.

And, fourth, this American mixture takes the freedom to pick and choose ideas, adapting them to the American context.

This approach moves towards examining how an idea is adapted and evolves in a setting through 'enabled adaptive change'.