Through an increased adaptability in areas such as human resources management and intra organizational strategic planning, this flexibility can act as a crucial advantage for public administration in times of significant change.

Adaptability of employment

Adaptation measures include increasing robustness of infrastructural designs and long term investments, increasing flexibility of vulnerable managed systems, enhancing adaptability of vulnerable natural systems, reversing trends that increase vulnerability, and improving societal awareness and preparedness.

Greater flexibility, better capacity to serve small communities, relatively labour intensive technologies and greater adaptability to local economic conditions can in some cases make SMEs better suited to conditions in other developing countries than TNCs (Dhungana 2003).

And this gives us a leg up on adaptability.

So time shift family dinner. That's adaptability.

So move where you sit. That's adaptability.

Adaptability to change is all about vulnerability.

D. Tradeability and adaptability of South technology and intellectual property rights

Adaptability is fine, but we also need bedrock.

(d) How can the tradeability and adaptability of South technology be facilitated?

We need adaptability, the ability to learn how to be creative and innovative.

And so we're proposing a different kind of flexibility, something that we call compartmentalized flexibility.

An economic loss arises only if a firm produces some specialized good that can be sold only in Russia using labor and capital that are also specialized and cannot be employed to produce something else. This applies especially to Germany The famous German Mittelstand often does produce highly specialized goods but it also prides itself on its flexibility and adaptability.

By improving their employability and adaptability to the market economy, this Fund has reduced the numbers of girls straying aimlessly and falling victim to abductions.

Secondly, peacebuilding requires flexibility.

And so while planning is important, so is flexibility.

Because it just creates more flexibility.

Such flexibility was not easy to offer when domestic legislation was already in force, and for that reason, the flexibility and the concessions had to be mentioned particularly.

Every one of us has a different set of acquired skills and abilities that all derive out of the plasticity, the adaptability of this really remarkable adaptive machine.

I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

Its flexibility had not, however, been reciprocated.

And this is really about looking the challenges of peak oil and climate change square in the face, and responding with a creativity and an adaptability and an imagination that we really need.

Liberalization of the labour market would need to focus on the effect of the declining labour force, productivity, migration and the adaptability of older workers to the present working environment.

With high modernist flexibility, that doesn't really work.

We appreciate the flexibility shown by all parties.

I will depend heavily upon the Committee's spirit of cooperation and flexibility.

The plan should also have flexibility for addressing regional and subregional issues.

He commended UNICEF for its increasing flexibility and speedy implementation of programmes.

There was consensus that no leniency and flexibility towards the use of force is acceptable, as ambiguity creates flexibility of interpretation and provides a justification for multiple interpretations, and consequently justification for unilateral action.

The international financial institutions should show some operational flexibility.

Flexibility will be essential, within the defined budgetary parameters.

There was also a need for flexibility in implementation.

A principles based approach to auditor independence (as set out in the EC's 2002 recommendation on auditor independence and in the IFAC Code of Ethics) is valued for its adaptability to new practices.

Innovative thinking and flexibility will be required qualities for successful performance on the job.

A certain flexibility is necessary in this regard, and radical positions should be avoided.

She illustrates how the State obligations in Art. 13, para 1 of the ICESCR and in Art. 28, para 1 of the CRC contain four elements, namely availability, accessibility, acceptability and adaptability (see also Wilson 2004).

Her delegation appreciated the flexibility shown by the delegation of Japan.

Flexibility has been an important feature of the regional programme design.

The Institute's success was due to its precise methodology and the flexibility of its action.

The negotiations on reform will require great flexibility in the search for agreements and consensus.

In that regard, the flexibility and creativity demonstrated by delegations during the negotiations was noteworthy.

Re hatting regional troops will require more flexibility in the composition and utilization of SDS.

But greater flexibility must be given to the Secretary General in managing staff and resources.

He has also given the schools flexibility concerning when and perhaps how to introduce it. Since nearly all schools are dependent on government subsidies, the grant of flexibility is widely perceived to be a tactical delay.