Sentence examples for said to adjust from inspiring English sources

They had virtually no time, they said, to adjust their lives to their altered circumstances.

This Florida team lost forward Will Yeguete to a broken foot last month, and it took time, Donovan said, to adjust, for players to grow comfortable with their new, or expanded, roles.

I work at a hospital where several nurses practice therapies like healing touch and therapeutic touch, said to adjust a patient's energy field and thereby decrease pain and improve healing, although there is no significant evidence for this.

Said to Adjust Reserves Executives at the American International Group, the insurer, regularly made changes to the company's reserves to help meet earnings goals through much of the 1990's, according to a former employee who was briefed on the adjustments.

With constant reminders that they wouldn't be in any way, shape, or form disturbing the way Broken Windows policing operates in New York City, the city council today rolled out a new set of bills said to adjust some penalties for low-level offenses.

It is impossible, he says, to adjust the data for varying national tendencies to lie and brag.

It would have been "the easiest thing," he says, to adjust downward.

"We're slow to change," he said, "slow to adjust, and we're building a huge bureaucracy".

The real challenge, she said, is to adjust the approach -- "change the climate" -- so that policing "is both effective and respectful".

"You don't start from 100percentt, you see?" she said, trying to adjust my expectations.

He learned from his doctor that he was seriously ill, and his family and friends were said to have difficulty adjusting to his life-threatening illness.