"Their chief negotiator was Allen Boyd," Spratt told me, referring to the congressman from north Florida, "and we cut a deal — well, that's a little" — he amended his phrasing, and smiled — "came to an understanding" that "there would be a seven-billion-dollar reduction in the increase in N.D.D., non-defense discretionary spending".
Over the past week, the American delegation pushed forcefully to delete or amend those phrases.
But as Mr. Obama said, slightly amending a phrase that once was commonly used to describe the United States-Japan relationship, the interchange between the America and China now is as "important as any bilateral relationship in the world".
It was when quizzed by a reporter about United's possession and efforts on goal that he amended the phrase Ferguson made famous.
Planned Parenthood has amended the phrase "domestic terrorism" to "acts of violence," but I wish they hadn't.
Editor's note: a poorly phrased bit of subbing was amended in this article at 1PM on Thursday, 22nd January.
Clarification: Language in this story and headline has been amended to clarify the phrasing of the question posed to Messing.
It is embarrassing, being thus conquered by an inward voice desperate to formulate, reconsider, construct, deconstruct, seek out the right phrase, amend it, think again.
The government thinks it needs a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag and the upper-house Bundesrat, the normal procedure for amending the constitution.The phrase "change the identity" is a call to arms, suggesting that the Basic Law is being superseded.
New York Times reporter forced to leave China? and Why US Newspaper publishers favour paywalls were amended because several phrases were inadequately attributed to the original text of the NYT and Globe and Mail stories that were the original sources, in contravention of Guardian editorial guidelines.
This quiz was amended on 8 August 2016 to clarify the phrasing of the first question.
