Perhaps because of this association with a single powerful state, its language, and its culture, Egyptian writing was seldom adapted to write other languages; in this it contrasts with the cuneiform script of the relatively uncentralized, multilingual Mesopotamia.
"I actually believe there has been a radiation of dung beetle species that are adapted to kill and eat millipedes," he wrote, "and that this astonishing phenomenon has gone completely unnoticed".
If there's a trumpeting of victimhood in this book ("To be adopted," Homes writes, "is to be adapted, to be amputated and sewn back together again. Whether or not you regain full function, there will always be scar tissue"), it's a trumpet with a powerful sound, as intense at times as the poetry of Sylvia Plath or Sharon Olds.
I worked very, very hard on my little arrangements… It's very interesting 'cause the things we wrote and played can be adapted to any big orchestra….
From it were derived three scripts better suited to handwriting: uncial, which was essentially the classical capitals adapted to writing with pen on paper and similar to hand printing; and cursive and minuscule, which were running scripts similar to modern handwriting forms, with joined letters and considerable modification in letter shape.
The film was adapted, written and directed by Jon Stewart: Bahari and Stewart met after Bahari's release, which is how The Daily Show host learned about Bahari's memoir.
An assistant reels off the alphabet repeatedly while Jean-Do painstakingly constructs words, whole sentences and eventually an entire memoir (from which the film was adapted by Ronald Harwood, who wrote The Pianist).
Fractionation was adapted from a protocol written for cultured cells obtained from the lab website of David Ron (http://ron.medschl.cam.ac.uk/protocols/NucCyto.html).ac.uk/protocols/NucCyto.html
The episode was adapted from a short story written by Lynn Venable (pen name of Marilyn Venable).
"If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted," Mr. Hansen wrote as the lead author of an influential 2008 paper, then the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would have to be reduced from 395 parts per million to "at most 350 p.p.m".
