"To me,to adapt a book is not a question of producing a carbon copy of the book,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud says countries must have the tools to adapt to a changing climate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

The EU leaders will also tackle another highly controversial issue how to share the costs of paying for developing nations to adapt to climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.10.29

Agricultural research can ensure that a smallholder,the fisher person, the pastoralists,the forest dweller and the herder are provided with the means to adapt to climate change.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

He says the Sudanese have often struggled to adapt to life in Australia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

The U.S.administration is also trying to adapt to the changing situation in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Essentially we have to adapt more quickly to competition from other countries.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

One,we need consumer tastes to adapt to a reduced level.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

"The first question anyone, when they are told that they have to adapt to climate change, they are going to ask, 'What is that change I have to adapt to?

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

And we need to adapt new methods of teaching them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

European Union leaders meeting in Brussels hailed an agreement on climate change, reached after weeks of wrangling over how much members should contribute to developing countries to adapt to global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

"They must produce a more stable system, one that protects consumers and investors, rewards innovation and is able to adapt and evolve with changes in the structure of our financial system."

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

But it adds that, even if aggressive policies are put in place to reduce future carbon emissions, steps must be taken now to adapt to greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere;

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The agency report called for the need to adapt to an increase in more intense hurricanes in the Caribbean, above-average warming impact on glacier-dependent river flows in Central Asia,and droughts affecting fragile economies in North Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The goal is to come up with substantive, but workable solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions,promote new, eco-friendly technologies, but also promote economic growth and investment and help the less developed nations to adapt to these new conditions.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"We have faced an enemy who do not want to fight us force-on-force, rather they wanted to lay improvised explosive devices to halt us in our path and this summer total of 1,800 Improvised explosive devices laid in our path, so we have had to adapt quickly."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

"Because it's happening so quickly, they haven't had time to adapt and change, if you imagine a climate changing over hundreds of thousands of years, bears and other animals would gradually move into other habitats,but because this is going to happen over decades, it will be too fast for them to adapt and look for other food sources,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

She says vampires also adapt well to many kinds of movies and books: those that are funny,sad, adventurous,scary or for young people.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

Amy Smith says vampires also adapt to the many local differences across the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

It's really important no matter what career you go into if it's accounting or human resources or science career that you can think critically and creatively, you can work in teams, you can adapt to change and that's important for everybody."

VOA: special.2010.04.01

He says the funds so far proposed by rich countries to help poor nations adapt to climate change are insufficient.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"And so decisions that federal agencies are making will have an enormous impact in our ability to wisely adapt to climate change."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14