We need to be less hidebound by old design standards and take a more flexible approach.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
So you could say that the courts may be taking a more flexible approach to revisiting issues determined in earlier litigation.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This flexible approach could be widely used for somatic mutation detection in clinical settings.
Najie Song, Xueting Zhong, Qingge Li 2014, 'Real-time bidirectional pyrophosphorolysis-activated polymerization for quantitative detection of somatic mutations.', PLoS ONE