The puppeteer who won an award is Bruce D. Schwartz, 32, who has adapted European and Japanese traditions.

To adapt the operatic conventions and traditions, enhance the operatic experience, expand the operatic audience, and strengthen the operatic art form.

What better notion than to adapt time-honored traditions of classical theater to the immediate concerns of a contemporary urban community?

Vizcaya is noteworthy for adapting historical European aesthetic traditions to South Florida's subtropical ecoregion.

Each embraced the American Renaissance propensity to adapt European architectural traditions to American taste.

Based on the idea that Jewish culture has always been changing, the congregation's services adapt old traditions to modern sensibilities and use language that is consistent with humanistic principles.

Georgian cuisine and wine have evolved through the centuries, adapting traditions in each era.

They show an ability to adapt traditions to changed conditions, a strong propensity to save and invest, thriftiness, and perseverance in achieving results.

For the new converts, relocating to the reservations afforded them the opportunity to establish their own churches, where they adapted traditions to incorporate into their style of Christianity.

Such liberalisation is good and makes things easier for Sweden, which since 1995 has had problems adapting Swedish traditions to the EU's rigid rules on milk products.