The phrase "altering the standard" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes or modifications to an established norm or benchmark.
Example: "The committee is focused on altering the standard to better reflect current industry practices."
Alternatives: "modifying the benchmark" or "changing the criteria."
The justices might have avoided this conflict by making clear that the local canvassing boards should apply existing standards for manual recounts rather than altering the standards after the count has begun.
One significant improvement suggestion emerged from the evaluation: a majority of participants agreed that consideration could be given to altering the standards revision process to conduct periodic reviews and progressive updates.
In 1991, the Supreme Court radically altered the standard for freeing school districts from desegregation orders.
The state flag conspicuously featured the Confederate battle emblem until 2001, and anger stemming from the decision to alter the standard helped push Gov. Roy E. Barnes from office.
Still, a lawyer can conduct a background check on the property, and if need be alter the standard contract prepared by the notary.
Didot's eldest son, François-Ambroise (1730 1804), altered the standard of type design by allowing greater contrast between thick and thin letters.
The findings could alter the standard of care, making drug treatment after surgery as routine for lung cancer as it already is for breast cancer or colon cancer, doctors said at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Although it does little to alter the standard view of the artist's later output, dismissed by critics as mostly shallow and lightweight, it does provide an elegant, thoughtful coda to "Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams -- His Art and His Textiles," on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
He altered the standard rule for gravity--a near heresy--so that slowly accelerating objects feel a slightly stronger gravitational pull than Newton's laws dictate.
In this way, the TV does not alter the standard method of intubation but adds a second, possibly improved, view of the vocal cords.
