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A tight turning radius — essentially, Big Blue is designed to turn in its own length — will make it highly maneuverable, and together with its compact size and light weight, will make it appropriate for indoor as well as outdoor use.
"How do we make it appropriate for kids?" he asked himself.
"The fact that something is technically legal doesn't make it appropriate or ethical," said David John, a research fellow with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group.
"I believe the overall form of 'Aura' would make it appropriate to call the piece a symphony," Mr. Lindberg has written.
Appropriate for an episode about people feeling trapped, which would make it appropriate for just about any episode of "Mad Men".
She said that baristas still control the quality of the espresso shot by adjusting the grind and also aerating the milk just so to make it appropriate for lattes and cappuccinos.
"If the economy evolves as we expect, economic conditions likely would make it appropriate at some point this year to raise the federal funds rate," Yellen said in a testimony prepared for a US House panel.
It takes time and effort to examine your attitudes and behaviours in order to adapt what you saw as a child - that is, to make it appropriate to your life as an adult - and few people manage to do this.
"Because it's so prevalent, the shock value has gone from it," said John McCarthy, who teaches decorum to young athletes and their parents at the Yogi Berra Museum in Little Falls, N.J. "That doesn't make it appropriate".
"A few members noted that additional data pointing to a sufficiently strong recovery could make it appropriate to consider reducing the pace or overall size of the purchase program," the minutes stated, referring to the $600 billion program.
In an article agonising about what the gesture had done to US society, the New York Times quoted John McCarthy, who teaches decorum to young athletes and parents at the Yogi Berra Museum in Little Falls, New Jersey: "Because it's so prevalent, the shock value has gone from it," he said, adding: "That doesn't make it appropriate".
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The phrase "make it appropriate " functions as a directive or suggestion to modify something to meet specific requirements or standards. Ludwig AI confirms this phrase is correct and usable in written English, further supporting its grammatical role in instructing modification.
Expression frequency: Very common
