If the commander of Jerdahn's ship proved equally adaptable, then there was real cause for hope.

It had certainly proved robust and adaptable up to that time.

And the town's work force has proved nimbly adaptable to change.

Where there is no call for a continued food market, market buildings have proved highly adaptable.

As for the politicians, they have proved quite adaptable in the face of powerful challenges.

Although hardly perfect, in the last five years the liberal-oligarchic system has nevertheless proved more adaptable.

The gun factory proved remarkably adaptable to the manufacture of cycle parts.

Scientists hope it will prove adaptable to human cells, but cannot say when that may happen.

And Japan's workers have proved more adaptable, in hard times, than commonly believed.

The Constitution has proved adaptable to changing political conditions.