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How to use the word alter in a Sentence? Page #5

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If we alter our process and we're able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, it's all a matter of line items.

Melissa Farrell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If we alter our process and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, then we can make it part of the budget, i mean that's -- it's all just a matter of line items.

Senate Republicans

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Yeah, and so if we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, then we can make it part of the budget, that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this, i mean it’s all just a matter of line items.

Melissa Farrell

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If the day come when Kilicdaroglu says 'sorry, but we will not form a government [with you],' then we will alter our course to the MHP. I believe we can form a government [with the MHP] if we can reach a common understanding.

Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Inaccuracies may lead drug safety professionals to draw incorrect conclusions, manufacturers may be wrongly forced to suspend and withdraw medications and interventions, health professionals may mistakenly alter their clinical practices, and patients may be denied safe and effective treatments.

Kenneth Getz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Reaching a comprehensive deal will not alter our commitment to fighting Iran's efforts to spread instability and support terrorism, that will not change -- with or without a deal.

State Tony Blinken

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What you are implying in those questions is that you’re going to be able to make some sort of diagnosis and maybe alter or amend the curriculum of the child, what is the implication of that question ? If you are implying that a vaginal birth child is going to be smarter or more proactive in class than a C-section child, that is not Aiken Elementary.

Manny Alvarez

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The Supreme Court decision today conveniently and not surprisingly follows public opinion polls, and tramples on states' rights that were once protected by the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, marriage between a man and a woman was established by God, and no earthly court can alter that.

Bobby Jindal

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are using external circuitry, meaning that we are using this brain-computer interface and this exoskeleton which gets controlled by your brain to alter the internal circuitry.

Eric Leuthardt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The coming rules have the potential to fundamentally alter the product that banks can offer and could significantly limit a large source of fee revenue for banks.

Edward Mills

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I doubt this will happen again, with the adjustments I'll make once I'll look at the film, game One is not going to make me stop shooting or alter my confidence at all.

Stephen Curry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I said, let’s first and foremost try to understand why food waste was being generated. If I can understand it, we can figure out what we can do to alter behavior, we knew it was just horrible.

Larry LeSueur

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I didn't alter the ball in any way, i have a process that I go through before every game where I go in and pick the balls that I want... Our equipment guys do a great job of breaking the balls in ... When I pick those footballs out at that point, you know to me they're perfect. I don't want anyone touching the balls after that.

Tom Brady

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A natural disaster or flood of bullets flying around your neighborhood doesn’t meet the standard, if the government wanted to deter illegal immigration, they would alter the cost-benefit analysis. Instead, they are looking for ways to help them stay.

Jan Ting

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If the government wanted to deter illegal immigration, they would alter the cost-benefit analysis. Instead, they are looking for ways to help them stay.

Jan Ting

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Today's close didn't alter our opinion of a potentially bearish gasoline market that will be forced to recognize a sizable supply surplus when seasonal tendencies begin to reverse in a few weeks, but, for now, technical signals across the complex favor higher prices and we would continue to caution against any attempts to pick a top.

Jim Ritterbusch

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If diplomats can negotiate for two-years on this issue, then certainly Congress is entitled to a review period of an agreement that will fundamentally alter our relationship with Iran and the sanctions imposed by Congress, the best outcome remains a good deal that ends Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program. That requires a strong, united, and bipartisan approach from the administration and Congress.

Bob Menendez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This is not going to be a welcome development, and I suspect will alter the strategy were the administration to seek to re-engage on the peace process.

Robert Danin

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This runs somewhat contradictory to the prevailing narrative that higher load warm-up is better than lower load warm-up, the two theories here are that warm-up swings with a heavier weight bat significantly and sub-optimally alter swing mechanics and/or that a resisted movement longer in duration than a baseball bat swing is necessary to produce a warm-up effect.

Matt McCrary

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At the cellular level, nicotine and other chemicals damage DNA and alter the cell’s metabolism, some tissues are more susceptible than others.

Michael Gordon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Each picture is like a completely different world. I work on lots of pictures at the same time. Sometimes you don't find something, so you have to end up making everything. Of course, you can't find some exact clothing or object exactly like in the picture. Often, I have to make it or alter something that I buy. Lots of challenges, but this is the part I most enjoy.

Photographer Irina Werning

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Their stress has real physical health outcomes, which may alter or reduce their ability to provide caregiving. This has implications on the longevity and staying-power of caregivers, especially those that are expected to provide long duration of caregiving.

Rebecca Utz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But it won't alter anyone's campaign plans. It does take away one option that everybody had.

Rich Galen

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Segregation was the accepted social order of that time, if we alter the monument, we alter its historical integrity.

Eric Williams

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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