Sentence examples for asking to alter from inspiring English sources

"We're not asking to alter or repeal that provision," said Rickey Dailey, a spokesman for the Texas School Coalition, which represents property-wealthy school districts that send money back to the state.

Lessing had told Macpherson she had been asked to alter the theme of her debut, but the agent said she couldn't agree.

Both men said they reported the incidents to team management and insisted they were never specifically asked to alter the result of a match.

Occasionally, he asked to alter a word or two; in "All My Ex's," a reference to the Brazos River became a reference to the Frio River, which flows closer to his home town.

"People understood it wrong," Adli Abu Aqeel said, adding its sculptor had been asked to alter the design to a woman on her own holding up Egypt's flag.

WALL STREET JOURNAL Deutsche Executive Said to Have Asked to Alter Numbers  |  As the financial crisis was unfolding, a junior analyst at Deutsche Bank resisted pressure from a mid-level executive to make an investment look less risky to credit ratings agencies, ProPublica reports, citing an unnamed person with knowledge of the matter.

The subjects were then asked to alter the parallax of the variable moon, changing its apparent distance so that it sat halfway between the viewer and the fixed moon.

Longacre was asked to alter Gobrecht's designs so new coins could be distinguished from old.

Beyond that, the artist is allowed to use their imagination, though they can be asked to alter things like costume details, and facial expressions.

Nurses were asked to alter sedation using clinical judgement to transition patients out of the red RI range and adjust sedation to achieve values in the amber/green range.

Moreover, before the study onset, subjects were asked to not alter diet intake throughout the training schedule.