The phrase "altering the sentence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes made to a sentence for clarity, style, or grammatical correctness.
Example: "The editor suggested altering the sentence to improve its flow and readability."
Alternatives: "modifying the sentence" or "revising the sentence".
This article was amended on 24 January 2011, initially to change reference to the long 19th century and the short 20th, and subsequently to restore the dates and alter the sentence to clarify the meaning.
"New evidence is... something we didn't know when the trial took place that would have altered the sentence," he was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald, adding that "our reference" is the fact that their appeal for clemency has already been rejected by the president's office.
We have altered the sentence as suggested, with the exception of the word "aging" which might place undue emphasis on the age of the recipients rather than the functional status of comp-1 sperm.
We thank the reviewer for pointing this out, and have altered the sentence in question to read: "…its mode of substrate recognition, which is mediated by an N-terminal domain related to a family of 'classic remodelers' including NSF, p97, and PEX1".
There's one catch: The legislation would not alter the sentences of the 11 inmates currently on Connecticut's death row.
According to legal scholars, some of the appeals may significantly alter the sentences, allowing top defendants like José Dirceu de Oliveira e Silva, a former presidential chief of staff, to wriggle out of hard jail time.
Funk ran for office in 2014 promising not to prosecute the school zone laws unless a child was endangered; he said that with mandatory sentencing, judges don't have the discretion to alter the sentences to fit the circumstances, such as awarding probation to a nonviolent, first-time offender.
A substitutivity principle says that, if two expressions are coextensional, that is, if they have the same extension, then (subject perhaps to some reasonable conditions) either can be substituted for the other in any sentence salva veritate, that is, without altering the original sentence's truth value.
A sentence, or more accurately a position in a sentence, is held to be referentially transparent if terms or phrases in that position that refer to the same object can be freely substituted without altering the truth of the sentence.
Mr. Bevilacqua's disclosure does not alter the conviction, but it could be a factor for the judge to weigh in sentencing, a lawyer in the case said.
