Sentence examples for altered to keep from inspiring English sources

(Vladimir Kagan's 1956 Floating Back sofa was altered to keep the legs from jutting out enough to trip the waiters).

To change with the times, the mix of foods has been carefully altered to keep both the old loyalists and the new customers happy.

The last castrato died in 1922, the last man we know to have been surgically altered to keep his voice from changing.

But he said that the intelligence agencies and the military were examining whether "the limited missile defense that we have in place" in Alaska and California needed to be altered to keep pace with the North's newly demonstrated capabilities.

That was a potentially significant French concession: since the new members are heavily agrarian, under current rules the cost could have risen sharply, and France may lose a good deal when they are altered to keep the cost down.There was no disguising French satisfaction at this apparent restoration of the old order.

But can my state of consciousness somehow be altered to keep my head in the game?

Joseph said that neck rolls probably disappeared because the game had sped up and equipment had been altered to allow players to keep pace.

Last month, lawmakers in Florida and courts in New York considered new ways to require lenders to alter loans to keep people in their homes or complete foreclosures more quickly.

New York State's courts, frustrated by delays in thousands of foreclosure cases, are planning to speed them along in a new program that would give judges added control and require banks to send officials who have the power to alter loans to keep people in their homes.

We altered our gameplan to keep things tight and it worked".

TRW beat the Lockheed Martin Corporation for the contract, which was postponed several months as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration altered some specifications to keep the telescope within budget.