But a man serving a ten-year stretch is apt to cool his heels in a local jail, with nothing offered in the way of rehabilitation.
The evidence suggests that a 100-year-old red sea urchin is just as apt to live another year, or reproduce, as a 10-year-old sea urchin.
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They also give them a short-term reprieve from searching for a job when firms are more apt to fire than hire.
Apt-X is a unique codec that reproduces robust sound that's true-to-life, providing CD quality audio, regardless of file compression encoding.
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Compliant Phones suggests that firms should plan to meet the most stringent requirements which are apt to include a five-year record maintenance requirement in Europe.
Users will also enjoy improved performance and a high-quality experience with the built in apt-X codec technology, which boosts the Bluetooth speaker's extensive dynamic range, particularly at the top end.
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If the Fed did take its foot off the bond-buying pedal sooner than planned, such a move is apt to shake the resolve of some gold buyers.
Among this smorgasbord of stories, one of the most endearing is a description of Ms Apt Russell's own experiment with self-starvation.
Dangerous, short-sighted and historically ignorant are all apt descriptions of a policy that fails to invest in the U.S. military in peacetime.
This being our annual publication of the original Forbes rich list, the U.S. 400, it's apt for me to note a revived debate over the rich-poor divide.
And the metaphor is apt because the trigger -- well-designed triggers create a huge incentive for Congress not to pull them.
Perhaps it was apt that the pithiest election-night verdict was delivered by a Danish politician, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, leader of that country's Social Democratic party.
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And yet, a look through some recent help-wanted ads revealed that this definition is still possibly apt.
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In a museum-house with glass walls, the Kramlichs and their architects hope to have found apt expression for this remarkable vision.
Targeting high-value policyholders, winning their loyalty and focusing on retention take on new importance, especially at a time of far-reaching organizational and business-process change, when customer relationships are apt to fray and attrition rates spike.
One might say that a lack of freshness is precisely why "hipster" is so apt: The whole point of a youth movement (and the joke for been-there-done-that adults) is the remarkable way everybody flaunts their quest for individuality by dressing the same way and doing the same things.
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