Children are incredibly adept at climbing trees.

They'd become extremely adept at living with us.

Hackers are adept at getting around computer security measures.

He seems very interested in musical theatre and the like, and he also seems quite adept.

They should also be adept at crisis management, and able to act decisively, without hesitation, when the situation warrants such action.

But she'd become adept at dodging the boys in blue, and when she did meet them, oh, she had wonderful, well, rapport.

I went on a psychopath spotting course, and I am now a certified and I have to say, extremely adept psychopath spotter.

In addition, new trade opportunities are provided by emerging technologies which facilitate cross border trade and by new forms of business organization adept at penetrating foreign markets.

Both the international community and persons living in the subregion were often unaware of existing conflicts as Governments had been adept at using international diplomacy to deflect attention from those situations.

Look at him, almost an old man... with his flabby stomach and spindly legs... bring, with doglike devotion, a fresh adept... who only a few nights ago was under his protection.

One of the groups particularly adept at this form of self financing is the Abu Sayyaf Group which was paid millions of dollars in 2000 for the release of hostages seized in Malaysia.

The basic drivers of change moving DMOs towards greater use of the Internet in the tourism sector are the interaction with and between new technologies, increasingly demanding consumers and progressively more technically adept commercial players.

This leaves us with an enduring mystery. Britain s most adept and skillful politician has evidently known for years exactly what not to do about arranging his departure, and yet he has chosen to ignore his own advice.

When commercial enterprises become adept at using illicit criminal activities to further their business interests and, by so doing, force any competitors to do the same, the overall result is the distortion of the legitimate economic market.

The strategy of using market forces and the Internet to open up a closed political system simply is not working. Indeed, the more economic power China has accumulated, the more adept it has become in extending censorship to cyberspace.

The smaller actor cannot compete with the larger in terms of military might, but it can use violence to set the world agenda and construct narratives that affect its targets soft power. Osama bin Laden was very adept at narrative.

Lending to states thus involves unfathomable risks that ought to be borne by specialized players who are willing to live with the consequences. Historically, sovereign lending was a job for a few intrepid financiers, who drove shrewd bargains and were adept at statecraft.

Its philosophy has been to merge jihadi education with modern curricula not only to train young students in religious principles but also to make them adept in science and technology, a philosophy that can be put to devastating effect to serve the needs of terrorism.

Similarly, when terrorists need weapons or explosives and have difficulty in procuring them directly, they turn to criminal brokers who are adept at providing customers with the illegal supplies they need and who may or may not know that they are dealing with terrorists.

China has shown itself adept at assertively promoting its national interests and playing classical balance of power geopolitics. But, in order to displace the US and assume the mantle of leadership in Asia, China must do more than pursue its own interests or contain potential rivals.

Likewise, the US worries that China may use the AIIB to advance China s economic and political interests. But anyone who is even vaguely familiar with the US approach to multilateral lending knows that no other country has been as adept at exploiting its power and leverage for strategic gain.

Africa s AIDS pandemic is well known its malaria pandemic, which will claim three million lives and a billion illnesses this year, is not. India controlled malaria after the 1960 s, while Africa did not, one reason being that Africa s malaria bearing mosquitoes are particularly adept at transmitting the disease.

In Greece, as in the US, a new government was left to clean up the mess. The Irish government that encouraged reckless bank lending and the creation of a property bubble was, perhaps not surprisingly, no more adept in managing the economy after the crisis that it was before.

With its prowess in central planning, China has always been adept at engineering shifts in its industrial structure as the move toward services led growth attests. But China apparently is far less proficient in replicating the DNA of a modern consumer culture specifically, in altering the behavioral norms of its people.

From my own perspective, as I look at the emerging market for people generating and using their own health behavior data, this commotion is useful. People who share health data are likely to be much more adept at managing it than they would have been just a few years ago.

North Korea has long been adept at flaunting its willingness to take risks, provoking a crisis in 2010 by sinking a South Korean naval vessel and shelling a South Korean island. This spring, it conducted a nuclear test and a series of missile tests, accompanied by a stream of bellicose rhetoric.

Although neuroscientists are adept at studying pain, animal models fail to account for its affective motivational component that is, pain s emotional, cognitive, and contextual features. Indeed, physiological indicators have less of an impact on a patient s prognosis after a painful injury than psychological and social factors such as depression or poor coping skills.

Osama bin Laden was very adept at narrative. He was not able to do as much damage to the US as he hoped, but he managed to dominate the world agenda for a decade, and the ineptness of the initial American reaction meant that he could impose larger costs on the US than were necessary.

While the West fails to show any sympathy for the Palestinian people, Israel profits from the West s lack of political will to condemn it for violations of the resolutions establishing international legitimacy and its daily creation of new facts, systematically and determinedly employing the oppressive and tyrannical methods in which it is so adept.

Until now, our societies have proved remarkably adept at adjusting to disruptive technologies but the pace of change in recent decades has caused tremendous strains, reflected in huge income disparities within countries, with near record gaps between the wealthiest and the rest. Inequality can corrupt and paralyze a country s political system and economic growth along with it.

Two thirds of the world may not have access to the latest smartphone, but local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech using low cost parts. Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in technology crafts, through which a mobile phone, a lunchbox and a flashlight can become a digital projector for a village school, or an alarm clock and a mouse can be melded into a medical device for local triage.