"alter" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He said he would not recommend the bill to Mr. Clinton unless the conference committee altered these and other provisions.
- Though Mr. Yeltsin responded that these were simply editing changes, they appeared to substantially alter key provisions of the agreement.
- This involved repealing Section 2 of the Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann) Act 1922, as well as altering provisions of the constitution.
- And Governor Cuomo has formed a proposal to permit the buyouts, but alter other provisions of the Mitchell-Lama program, to make the conversions less attractive.
- Moments after House members took the oath of office on Thursday, he said, the back-slapping gave way to impatient gavel-pounding and flaring tempers over a successful move by Democrats to push through a measure that would alter provisions of last year's budget agreement.
- President Bush does not want Congress to alter the prescription drug benefit, scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, or other provisions of the 2003 Medicare law.
- It even allows for a degree of experimentation in that the delegated legislation can be used to alter provisions in the parent act.
- Rather, they say, they will probably chip at the margins, trying to alter provisions that hurt them most without damaging the package's one indisputable good: a smaller deficit.
- Article 7 of the Water Framework Directive has already laid down the obligations for drinking water, and this compromise does not alter the relevant procedures and provisions.
- Additionally, the Legislative Assembly may refer revisions to the Constitution; a revision differs from an amendment in that it may alter multiple provisions of the Constitution.
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