Sentence examples for Altered the wording from inspiring English sources

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He altered the wording of the draft so that the proposal came from the United States to Great Britain, rather than the reverse.

Her features were separately good". But even Henry couldn't settle to one consistent description and altered the wording of his note in an 1833 reprint to "her stature rather exceeded the middle height", dropping the phrase about "true elegance".

Federal scientists have continued to author papers and issue reports on climate change, for example, even as political appointees have altered the wording of news releases or blocked civil servants from speaking about their conclusions in public forums.

In Thursday night's debate, Mr. Gingrich made a similar boast, but altered the wording somewhat, saying, "We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets".

This week the Fed altered the wording it uses to describe its plans (see article), giving itself room to raise interest rates later this year the first rise since 2006.

I have altered the wording significantly for purposes of clarity.

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The lyrics of the existing song were altered: the word "rape" was replaced by "abduction".

It was marked with an accent, though, that altered the word's meaning to "insistent".

As if to explain, or compensate, for the gaffe, he altered the words of the song a few moments later, perfectly in rhythm and in key: "Lyrics to old songs that you don't know/And you embarrass yourself at MSG/But it doesn't matter one bit, everyone got in for free".

Beginning with the June issue, which arrives on newsstands this week, the title of the magazine has been altered: the word "cigar," which was once about as big and fat as a Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona, is now barely the size of a half-smoked cheroot.

The Chicago Sun-Times, The Tribune's newspaper archrival, ran a contest encouraging readers to produce music videos in protest, and the winner was, deliciously, a young Tribune intern who altered the words to the 1984 Twisted Sister anthem, "We're Not Gonna Take It": It's where we do our boozin' Where our team does its losin' Now some rich dude, he wants a change.

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