modifying

• “While most language can be used abusively, morally does play a role in modifying equivalency.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Lacking in Prosal Clarity

• “But the real power of grabbing an RSS feed from Facebook lies in modifying and “fixing” it.”

  Newsfeed RSS Makes Facebook Streams More Manageable | Lifehacker Australia

• “Those who hold positions of power continue to talk about culture and electoral democracy, the shooting stars of byzantine culture, and those who are opposed seem to be devoured by the fear of not being part of the business rather than interested in modifying its mechanism," is just one sentence that should have had an editor reaching for a big blue pen.”

  The Guardian: Beauty and the Inferno by Roberto Saviano – Review

• “New Solicitor General Elena Kagan — appointed by President Obama and now at the start of her first full term — is likely to begin modifying some government stances.”

  Sotomayor's impact on trial as high court returns to work

• “Redskins coaches aren't admitting defeat in modifying Haynesworth's role, Haslett said.”

  The Washington Post: Jim Haslett adapts the defense to Albert Haynesworth

• “` Dr. Hammerfield, 'as Ernest once said, ` has succeeded in modifying his metaphysics so as to give God's sanction to the Iron Heel, and also to include much worship of beauty and to reduce to an invisible wraith the gaseous vertebrate described by Haeckel -- the difference between Dr. Hammerfield and Dr. Ballingford being that the latter has made the God of the oligarchs a little more gaseous and a little less vertebrate.”

  Chapter 19: Transformation

• “Redskins coaches aren't admitting defeat in modifying Haynesworth's role, Haslett said; they're just being good coaches.”

  The Washington Post: Albert Haynesworth and Redskins settle on a mutually beneficial role

• “The Department of Housing and Urban Development is reviewing how the largest banks performed in modifying loans for struggling borrowers, and civil and criminal investigators are exploring possible legal violations.”

  The Washington Post: Warning signs of foreclosure crisis were ignored, says FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair

• “But he sees the wisdom in modifying ratings to add "something between an R and an NC-17 rating" and says intensely violent movies "are not for someone under 14.”

  Many tweens watching 'R' films despite restriction

• “Its success in modifying crucial parts of advanced economies was not merely the result of winning elections, though social democratic parties in government played a necessary party in achieving it.”

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