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The predictions, he said, were part of a process as Philadelphia attempted to alter a history of only periodic success.

The general refusal of The New York Times and its writers and editors to recognize that people who intentionally target and murder civilians, whether on a bus in Gaza or in a hotel in Mumbai, are attempting to alter a political situation (the classic definition of terrorism) and are therefore terrorists defies logic.

The domain adaptation process attempts to alter a source domain in an attempt to bring the distribution of the source closer to that of the target.

The hearing described in "Air Force Academy Seeks to Prosecute Cadet in Rape" (news article, May 15) is a welcome development in the academy's recent attempts to alter an ingrained culture in which female cadet victims who complained were systematically punished while their male cadet attackers were not.

Pacquiao representatives said that Mayweather's manager, Al Haymon, attempted to alter an agreement in the original fight contract that would have shorted Pacquiao and promoter Top Rank Inc.'s agreed-upon ticket allocation by 2,000 tickets.

The study, published online in the journal Protein & Cell, details how the researchers used the genome-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 on "non-viable" embryos in an attempt to alter the gene responsible for a potentially lethal blood disorder.

Documented cases of the sort of fraud that photo identification laws seek to limit — ineligible people showing up at the polls and casting ballots in person — have been few and isolated, although there is greater evidence that absentee ballot fraud has been used to attempt to alter the results of an election, including a 1997 mayoral election in Miami.

He anticipated some backlash toward that proposal, writing that "controversy is almost inevitable when you attempt to alter the culture of a major institution".

The prosecution contends that the attempt to alter the computer record was a part of a cover-up to hide the fact that she received the improper tip.

Targeting tumors with chelating agents in an attempt to alter cellular iron homeostasis or metabolism is a promising treatment approach [ 31].

8]: Legislator Allan Binder's attempt to alter this program is an ill-conceived and cynical effort aimed not at reform but squarely at the power of the county executive's office.