Modifying Sentence Examples

Other causes have been at work modifying the Quaker society.

This proved impracticable, but the frequent conferences Cranmer had with the theologians composing the embassy had doubtless a great influence in modifying his views.

Later on he develops the materialistic view of Epicurus, only modifying it so far as to conceive of matter as finite.

Since that period the population has in the main been Teutonic; and the French conquests of the 17th century, while modifying this element, still left it predominant.

Instinctive behaviour thus depends solely on how the nervous system has been built through heredity; while intelligent behaviour depends also on those characters of the nervous system which have been acquired under the modifying influence of individual relation to the environment.

The whole work was in the hands of the writer of the seventh book of the Apostolic Constitutions, who embodies almost every sentence of it, interspersing it with passages of Scripture, and modifying the precepts of the second part to suit a later (4th-century) stage of church development; this writer was also the interpolator of the Epistles of Ignatius, and belonged to the Syrian Church.

These rivers are constantly modifying the adjacent lands.

For some the influence of this association was of a general nature, merely modifying their conception of the moral life; others adopted to a greater or less extent some of the peculiar ideas of the current systems of philosophy.

By suitably modifying the manipulation a further number of consequent poles, as they are called, may be developed.

Many of the symptoms of diseases were caused by the passions and perturbations of the archeus, and medicines acted by modifying the ideas of the same archeus.

He resembled his Greek master in the high value he set on the study of the "natural history of disease"; in the importance he attached to "epidemic constitution" - that is, to the influence of weather and other natural causes in modifying disease; and further in his conception of the healing power of nature in disease, a doctrine which he even expanded beyond the teaching of Hippocrates.

The raw materials are selected with great care to assure chemical purity, but whereas in most glasses the only impurities to be dreaded are those that are either infusible or produce a colouring effect upon the glass, for optical purposes the admixture of other glass-forming bodies than those which are intended to be present must be avoided on account of their effect in modifying the optical constants of the glass.

Frankish law becomes a powerful modifying element in English legal history after the Conquest, when it was introduced wholesale in royal and in feudal courts.

Generally speaking the oxide or quicklime has a more rapid and greater effect in modifying the soil than slaked lime, and this again greater than the carbonate or chalk.

This difference is probably explained by the fact that the idea of thus modifying the Kagura had its origin in musical recitations from the semi-romantic semi-historical narratives of the 14th century.

The compatibility of Christian and later Neo-Platonic ideas is evidenced by the writings of Synesius, bishop of Ptolemais, and though Neo-Platonism eventually succumbed to Christianity, it had the effect, through the writings of Clement and Origen, of modifying the tyrannical fanaticism and ultradogmatism of the early Christian writers.

Communion under both kinds and the marriage of the clergy were sanctioned, thus gravely modifying two of the fundamental institutions of the medieval Church.

In order to justify the use of stationary waves we must show that two such trains can move in opposite directions over the same ground without modifying each other so long as the displacement in either is small.

In 1907 the government announced their intention of modifying the electoral system in Saxony by the adding of representation for certain professions to that of the three classes of the electorate.

But two modifying facts should be noticed.

On the 22nd of March 1869 he delivered a very powerful speech against the second reading of the bill, and during its later stages exercised a considerable influence in modifying the severity of its provisions.

But there is no doubt that, whatever may be the view taken as to the extreme theory of vegetarianism, it has had considerable effect in modifying the excessive meat-consuming regime of previous days, and in introducing new varieties of vegetable cooking into the service of the table.

In 1906 a bill was passed somewhat modifying the existing status of the classes above mentioned, and especially directing new ordinances with regard to the judicial treatment of Christian natives.

The first important step, and in some respects the decisive step, towards modifying it was taken in 1824, under the policy of Huskisson.

In 1842, however, Sir Robert Peel made the first important concession, by modifying the sliding scale, his opponent, Lord John Russell, having proposed in the previous year a fixed duty of 8s.

His main sympathies are with the Neo-Kantians, and especially with Lange in modifying the a priori, and in extending the power of reason beyond phenomena to an ideal world; and yet the cry of his phenomenalism is not " back to Kant," but " beyond Kant."

The gardener therefore may, and does, by modifying, improve upon the conditions under which a plant naturally exists.

The chief difficulty in the way of modifying the blastfurnace process itself so as to make it accomplish what the direct processes aim at, by giving its product less carbon and silicon than pig iron as now made contains, is the removal of the sulphur.

At all of these Holdheim was a strong supporter of the policy of modifying ritual (especially with regard to Sabbath observance, marriage laws and liturgical customs).

Godwin himself in after days modified his communistic views, but his strong feeling for individualism, his hatred of all restrictions on liberty, his trust in man, his faith in the power of reason remained; it was a manifesto which enunciated principles modifying action, even when not wholly ruling it.

By modifying the hypothesis as to the size and density, times appreciably longer or shorter than the above would be obtained.

Several of the ancients had a vague belief in continuity between the inorganic and the organic and in the modifying or variation-producing effects of the environment.

In the above, and in other respects also, a survey of the history of Palestine suggests the necessity of modifying that " biological " treatment of the development of thought which pays insufficient attention to the persistence of the representatives of different stages by the side of or after the disappearance of the higher stages; see I.

This work he published, under the title The Gospel worthy of all Acceptation, soon after his settlement in Kettering; and although it immediately involved him in a somewhat bitter controversy which lasted for nearly twenty years, it was ultimately successful in considerably modifying the views prevalent among English dissenters.

By annexation, as between civilized peoples, the annexing state takes over the whole succession with the rights and obligations attaching to the ceded territory, subject only to any modifying conditions contained in the treaty of cession.

Sec±hi (1863-1867) who distinguished four " types "; subsequent research, whilst slightly modifying, has in the main confirmed this classification.

It contains within itself this modifying critical faculty which reacts upon and arranges the sense-given presentations.

It is only gradually that there appears any recognition of a spiritual principle exercising a modifying or causal influence over inert matter.

It is evident that acclimatization may occur (if it occurs at all) in two ways, either by modifying the constitution of the individual submitted to the new conditions, or by the production of offspring which may be better adapted to those conditions than their parents.

He protested against the confirmation of the statute of provisors in 1390, and he was successful in slightly modifying the statute of praemunire in 1393.

The effect of the spinal mountain range in modifying oceanic conditions is thus illustrated.

The Andes, although much broken in these latitudes, also exert a modifying influence on these eastern districts, sheltering them from the cold westerly storms and giving them a drier climate.

In the 17th and 18th centuries a movement of revision took place in France, and succeeded in modifying about half the Breviaries of that country.

The part played by the various native races in modifying the character of the European colonization will be best considered as they successively came into contact with the white settlers.

Configuration is only one out of many conditions modifying distributions, and its effects on England as a whole appear to be suggestive rather than determinative.

In general Utah may be said to have a true continental climate, although the presence of Great Salt Lake has a modifying effect on the climate of that portion of the Basin Region in which it lies.

Edwards's main aim had been to revivify Calvinism, modifying it for the needs of the time, and to promote a warm and vital Christian piety.

The northern plains of the republic are swept by the north-east trades, and here, too, the mountain barriers exercise a strongly modifying influence.

These laws are inextricably mixed in consciousness with the data of volition and sensation, with free activity and fatal action or impression, and they guide us in rising to a personal being, a self or free cause, and to an impersonal reality, a not-me - nature, the world of force - lying out of us, and modifying us.

The function of a judge in a criminal as in a civil action was to see that the facts, with modifying circumstances, were fully and truly submitted to him, and then by applying the law to these facts to ascertain and declare the amount of compensation that would make a legal adjustment.

For crimes against property the usual penalty, as in breach of contract, was generic restitution, the quantity, subject to modifying circumstances, being twice the amount taken or destroyed.

The idea prevalent with the more liberal minds amongst the clergy was that of comprehensionthat is to say, of so modifying the prayers and ceremonies of the church as to enable the dissenters cheerfully to enter in.

A bill modifying the Corn Laws, introduced by Canning and Huskisson, passed the House of Commons on the 12th of April 1827, but was rejected by the Lords.

Thus we have a new zoological factor in the history of the moral sentiments; which, though in no way opposed to the older psychological theory of their formation through coalescence of more primitive feelings, must yet be conceived as controlling and modifying the effects of the law of association by preventing the formation of sentiments other than those tending to the preservation of human life.

Mill afterwards made popular in England, the influence of Auguste Comte (Philosophic positive, 182g-1842, and Systeme de politique positive, 1851-1854) appears as the chief modifying element.

Stream valleys and bottom lands are the conspicuous modifying feature of the prairie region; but in general, owing to the gentle slope of the streams and the great breadth of the plains, erosion has been slight; and indeed the streams, overloaded in seasonal freshets, are building up their valley floors.

Adjectives normally precede the noun they are modifying.

Is it an adverb, modifying the verbal adjective?

When modifying files in this fashion you must never remove the input data until the output data is safely written to disk.

This includes not only dietary changes, but also modifying your behavior and ideally participating in a regular exercise program.

Ensure that you have provided enough power sockets of the right type or consult an electrician about modifying the circuits.

Design service illuminance is derived from the standard service illuminance by taking account of the modifying factors contained in the flow chart.

This includes various methods of modifying semiconductor chips at the atomic level for the purpose of fabricating integrated circuits (ICs ).

Modifying plants with a gene enhancing the proportion of guaiacyl-syringyl lignin therefore provides a lignin more readily degraded by chemicals or enzymes.

Review concluding that these drugs should be reserved for patients unresponsive to at least two other disease modifying drugs, including methotrexate.

The basic idea of these techniques, known as adaptive modulation, involves continuously modifying certain parameters of the transmitted signal.

Clinical efficacy TYSABRI is indicated as a single disease modifying therapy in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis to prevent relapses and delay progression of disability.

Modifying your diet can help you obtain more nourishment from food.

It is unlikely that genetically modifying primates would ever provide that one vital difference between a treatment and none.

A new set of proposals for modifying the sanctions regime was launched by the UK, with US backing, in May 2001.

The purple bacteria evolved oxygen respiration by reversing the flow of molecules through their carbon fixing pathways and modifying their electron transport chains.

Somehow, it doesn't seem to matter how many of them I come across, I remain incapable of modifying the schema.

But while gaseous products and even falling water are capable of modifying electrical conditions in their immediate neighbourhood, the " infection " produced by radium is more insidious, and other drawbacks present themselves in practice.

We thus see in the Scandinavian settlers in Gaul, after they had put on the outward garb of their adopted country, a people restless and enterprising above all others, adopting and spreading abroad all that they could make their own in their new land and everywhere else - a people in many ways highly gifted, greatly affecting and of Sicily modifying at the time every land in which they settled, but, wherever they settled, gradually losing themselves among the people of the land.

Even if the analysis of the literature into component documents were complete, we should still possess a most imperfect record, since the documents themselves have passed through many redactions, and these redactions have proceeded from varying standpoints of religious tradition, successively eliminating or modifying certain elements deemed inconsistent with the canons of religious usage or propriety which prevailed in the age when the redaction took place.

The changes of temperature and climate caused by difference of elevation are quite comparable in their magnitude and effect on all organized creatures with those due to differences of latitude; and the relative position of the high and low lands on the earth's surface, by modifying the direction of the winds, the fall of rain, and other atmospheric phenomena, produce effects in no sense less important than those due to the relative distribution of the land and sea.

In this he went beyond Cyril and the Alexandrine school generally, who, although they expressed the unity of the two natures in Christ so as almost to nullify their duality, yet took care verbally to guard themselves against the accusation of in any way circumscribing or modifying his real and true humanity.

Doubtless immigration in the last fifty years of the 19th century had a modifying effect on American life; but on the whole the power of a modern civilized community working through individual freedom to assimilate elements not differing from it too radically has been displayed to a remarkable degree.

No doubt the two interact, cult influencing creed and creed modifying cult - cult, perhaps, being most powerful in forming the actual religious faith of the multitude.

It may be taken that, subject to modifying circumstances, a person guilty of homicide had to pay (r) coirp-dire for the destruction of life, irrespective of rank; (2) the honourvalue of the victim; (3) his own honour-value if the deed was unintentional; and (4) double his own honour-value if committed with malice aforethought.

That river (see below) pierces the desert without modifying its character.

The Legislative Assembly, without a mandate for modifying a constitution that had become inapplicable with the suspension of the monarch, had before disappearing convoked a National Convention, and as the reward of the struggle for liberty had replaced the limited franchise by universal suffrage.

How about modifying a flower to produce insulin?

Somehow, it does n't seem to matter how many of them I come across, I remain incapable of modifying the schema.

Anne M 1. App Sup still to try modifying letter, Sent reminder email to see if all their tasks can be completed.

A Supplemental Final Judgment Modifying Alimony will be signed by the judge.

By modifying this rhythm slightly, it evolved into the famous bossa nova beat.

Modifying behavior - Once you change your cognitions, your behaviors will follow suit.

It is much easier to lose weight sensibly by modifying your diet and adding a little exercise to your daily routine.

If your budget is tight, but you have your heart set on exchanging vows in paradise, consider modifying your guest list in order to get hitched without breaking the bank.

By brushing up your skills with simple cake decorating techniques, you can also grow confident enough to start devising your own patterns and modifying those you find to be more suitable for what you need.

The scientific agricultural community believes that modifying seeds, controlling pollination, and creating hybrids produces a more durable food supply and provides higher yields.

Researchers believe that by modifying and altering crops they can make them more resistant to pests and diseases, and thus more profitable.

For example, modifying food at the genetic level in order to make it a more vibrant color or more resilient to harsh weather while growing are both common reasoning for utilizing GMO technology.

Genetically modifying organisms does not refer to simply adding artificial food coloring in the final stages of production or adding a preservative to a final product.

The idea of genetically modifying organisms is viewed by some as "playing God" in the sense that scientists take an already perfect organism, such as an apple, and then alter it to make it what they want to make it.

Improved Animal Health - By modifying the DNA of certain species for food production, it is possible to alter the genes in such a way as to prevent common diseases.

Allergy Issues - By drawing out proteins from foods and modifying other foods with them, there is a much greater chance of cross contamination of allergens.

Doing what no other bra can do, it can be adjusted in various ways (such as removing the straps or modifying the back) to wear with backless, strapless and other similar types of garments.

The site also offers articles about modifying your existing home to make it more appropriate for your changing needs.

Laser midline glossectomy involves surgically modifying the size and shape of the soft tissue portions of the tongue's base.

Try making it more challenging for yourself by creating one type of mech and try to beat the game again without modifying it in any way.

On the PC, all the game data is right there on your hard drive, ripe for the modifying.

Once you've made a couple of batches with your beginner-level wine kit, try creating your own recipes or modifying recipes you find in books.

Second, you could look into mobile phone tools that are used for repairing or modifying your cellular phones.

The ATM protein does this by sending signals and modifying other proteins in the cell, which then changes the function of the proteins.

All DMARDs work by modifying the immune system.

Cooperate with, show tact towards, and compromise with other children, demonstrating the willingness to subordinate the self by modifying behavior and opinions in the interests of others.

Modifying the diet while recovering from food poisoning is usually recommended.

The IEP may cover issues such as allowing extra time on tests, modifying assignments, and providing home tutoring or a classroom aide when necessary.

Most often, this may include modifying teaching methods and the educational environment, since traditional educational methods will not always be effective with a dyslexic child.

The goal of therapy is to help provide a consistent daily schedule, support, rules, discipline, and limits, as well as to help train patients to get along with others by modifying behaviors.

These kits assist buyers in modifying their loans to fit their current financial situation.

Swimwear does not receive different treatment than do the categories of ready-to-wear and haute couture, as designers rifle through swimsuit fashions modifying old styles while introducing new ones.

Modifying the game to include the names of participants makes it more special.

The Padawan's Guide is a great source of information about making a Jedi robe and modifying existing patterns.

When it comes to asking questions, begin by modifying your language to use "I" words and "we" words to promote solidarity before using "you".

You can also play with the allergenic and digestive qualities of your bread by modifying a recipe to omit eggs or dairy while using alternative sweeteners such as agave nectar or honey instead of cane sugar.

They are geared towards, as the name implies, modifying behavior in the long term sense rather than simply dealing with a classroom management situation.

Lizardman, whose real name is Erik Sprague, has spent years modifying himself.

Sometimes followup care will involve modifying behaviors or activities, as well.

As the term suggests, scarification involves permanently modifying the skin by creating scars.

Editing and modifying is fairly straightforward.

Modifying recipes can be an excellent way to introduce all sorts of interesting foods and flavors into your diet.

While the data provided from these studies suggests certain RA patients will benefit from modifying their diet, this approach does not work for everyone.

The American College for Sports Medicine recommends modifying exercises for people who have arthritis.

While getting the order and the elision right in the simple phrase je t'aime is complicated, modifying the phrase with 'always' is as simple as tagging the French word for 'always' onto the phrase je t'aime.

This allows you to right-click the embedded .swf (held between the "webbot" tags) and change things like the size by modifying the "HTML Markup Properties."

Search through Premade Web Templates and pick the one that would work best with the content you plan to have on the site, download and unzip the file, and start modifying the .html and .css files to suit your particular needs.

This large influx of Europeans, however, is modifying the population by reducing the Indian and mestizo elements to a minority, although they are still numerous in the mesopotamian, northern and north-western provinces.

The observation of the effects of varying conditions in modifying living organisms.

The response to the stimulus takes the form of increasing the permeability of particular cells of the growing structures, and so modifying the degree of the turgidity that is the precursor of growth in them.

At Lyons, on the 13th of March, Napoleon had issued an edict dissolving the existing chambers and ordering the convocation of a national mass meeting, or Champ de Mai, for the purpose of modifying the constitution of the Napoleonic empire.

These were successive stages in the geologic process which has created, and is still actively modifying, the state.

The extent of the area affected and of the variation in the turgor depends upon many circumstances, but we have no doubt that in the process of modifying its own permeability by some molecular change we have the counterpart of muscular contractibility.

Although the foregoing account of the temperatures of Asia supplies the main outline of the observed phenomena, a very important modifying cause, of which more will be said hereafter, comes into operation over the whole of the tropical region, namely, the periodical summer rains.

While it is impossible to give a strictly economic interpretation of the earlier history of nations, economic interests so govern the life and determine the policy of modern states that other forces, like those of religion and politics, seem to play only a subsidiary part, modifying here and there the view which is taken of particular questions, but not changing in any important degree the general course of their development.

This formula, notwithstanding many attempts at both disproving and modifying it, has well stood the test of time; the subject has been the basis of constant discussion, many variations have been proposed, but the original conception of Kekule remains quite as convenient as any of the newer forms, especially when considering the syntheses and decompositions of the benzene complex.