Sentence examples for amend the language from inspiring English sources

If we are unable to alter the reality we can at least amend the language.

United Nations representatives from around the world spent weeks pushing Russia to amend the language to include gay people, according to interviews with representatives from eight countries.

The statement also noted that the producers would amend the language of the casting call to welcome "people of all ethnicities" to audition for Hamilton.

Washington sent a middle-ranking State Department official to Durban to try to amend the language on Israel but he seems to have had little success.Few senior politicians from the United States or Europe attended the opening session.There is bound to be more argument at the conference itself.

The idea is that if congressmen put a preliminary draft of a bill in an open source program on their sites, then specialists out in their home districts could amend the language or add information that hadn't been addressed for the legislator to consider.

fought back, attempting to amend the language to strike the five percent requirement.

The lawsuit was filed by the mayor's legal staff against the Campaign Finance Board, a nonpartisan city agency, and provoked an immediate response from the City Council in legislation that amended the language of the 1998 law.

Mr. Rumsfeld and the chiefs tried to help, amending the language of the strategic guidelines to remove a demand that United States forces be ready to "concurrently" carry out the four core missions.

Over the summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio amended the language of the 421-a tax-abatement program to forbid the creation of separate entrances for tenants of different classes, a nice gesture that became irrelevant last Friday, when the program expired, after a six-month extension, amid the usual New York City/Albany finger-pointing.

And, indeed, the end of the bill amends the language of the Budget Control Act of 2011 -- the debt ceiling law that created the super committee -- so that the target of deficit reduction is raised from $1.5 trillion to $1.95 trillion.

The position of pay czar -- if you will -- was established earlier this year when Congress amended the language of the TARP legislation to ensure that a situation similar to AIG's issuance of exorbitant bonuses did not happen again.