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How to use the word MODIFYING in a Sentence?

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Departments around the country … are offering between $ 25,000 and $ 30,000 signing bonuses, you’ve got a national shortage of applicants which has forced police departments to do unprecedented things like offering signing bonuses and, in some cases, modifying the standards for hiring.

Chuck Wexler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am proud to represent a district with deep ties to motorsports and I understand the vital role the sport plays supporting local jobs in our area, the RPM Act will help to ensure enthusiasts of the sport in North Carolina and across the country can continue the time-honored tradition of modifying stock vehicles for competitive racing.

Patrick McHenry

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

However, we are not saying that the vaccine will be ineffective in populations with obesity, but rather that obesity should be considered as a modifying factor to be considered for vaccine testing, even a less protective vaccine will still offer some level of immunity.

Melinda Beck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are real privacy and cyber concerns with Chinese companies using apps, but this is not what's going on. If Paul Triolo wanted to deal with that, Paul Triolo'd have a much broader and more technical approach, i could see intense lobbying on the part of Paul Triolo businesses. People are going to push back on this and the administration has a history of delaying and modifying.

Graham Webster

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Millions of Californians answered the call to stay home and thanks to them, we are in a position to begin moving into our next stage of modifying our stay-at-home order, but make no mistake -- this virus isn't gone. It's still dangerous and poses a significant public health risk.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If several common disorders could be avoided or delayed by genetically modifying humans, the average disease-free lifespan could be substantially extended.

Kevin Smith

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Consumers are urged to avoid buying vaping products on the street, and to refrain from using THC oil or modifying/adding any substances to products purchased in stores.

The FDA

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

With this agreement, we hope to build on our MS experience with small molecules and complex generics and ultimately provide patients with expanded access to a (disease-modifying treatment) that healthcare systems may otherwise not be able to provide.

Pierre Bourdage

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Either the Deccan eruptions did not play a role which we think unlikely or a lot of climate-modifying gases were erupted during the lowest volume pulse of the eruptions.

Courtney Sprain

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

What we don't want to do is reward aggressive behavior like you saw with the Decatur incident by modifying our behavior, that's just not going happen.

Joe Felter

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I'm not sure it's what I would call practice-changing or behavior-modifying in any way at this time, on this one study, I'm not going to tell patients to eat earlier or go to sleep later.

Ganesh Palapattu

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That would require modifying a warhead and incorporating it into a cruise missile. The ship or attack submarine would then have to be upgraded with a nuclear-certified launch control system and communications, and the crew would have to be trained and certified to carry out the mission.

Hans Kristensen

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

With Lilium, we don't have to base the jet on anything that has been done before, what's so incredibly exciting about this is we're not talking about modifying a car to take to the skies, and we are not talking about modifying a helicopter to work in a better way.

Frank Stephenson

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The continually escalating prices of MS disease-modifying therapies are creating barriers to people with MS getting these life-changing medications.

Cyndi Zagieboylo

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We encourage other companies to follow suit, creating a drug pricing trend that keeps patients first, the continually escalating prices of MS disease-modifying therapies are creating barriers to people with MS getting these life-changing medications.

Cyndi Zagieboylo

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I congratulate the administration for modifying the original order to ensure that it is prospective in application, protective of those with valid visas and legal status, and exempts Iraqis, as five thousand Americans are currently fighting alongside them against ISIL.

Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

ObamaCare, he won't be able to do it, forget about repealing or modifying Dodd-Frank.

Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Right now stores would say, ‘that’s a lot of work,’ but you spend more time on your phone than you do in a store -- by far. Stores have to start modifying their behavior.

Pano Anthos

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

One could imagine tortoises modifying potentially their migration and movement behavior through special memory and things like that. Suddenly there is a nice new patch of nutritious stuff here that didn't exist ten years ago, so I will come back here next year.

Stephen Blake

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The hollows are remarkable because they have a crisp, fresh appearance, they are probably younger than a few tens of millions of years, but some hollows are probably forming today. It is amazing to find ongoing geological activity modifying the surface of Mercury.

David Blewett

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We're not modifying nature in any way, we're simply identifying micro-organisms that are already beneficial to the plants and applying them in high concentrations to the seed.

David Perry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

Thomas Szasz

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

Aleister Crowley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

Fortran manual for Xerox Computers

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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