Sentence examples for idea to alter from inspiring English sources

And since definite answers about Ubik are so hard to come by, it seems a good idea to alter our usual formula slightly and question someone who has an affinity for Dick's kind of writing as well as expertise on the author's life and times.

Even if one could prove that a set of measured responses to specific terrorist acts was effective, or that it's always a good idea to alter terrorists' cost-benefit calculations, there's the problem implied by the tactic's name: people on the receiving end of terrorism, and not just the immediate victims, do, in fact, enter a state of terror.

The audacious idea, to alter the course of the Arno River in order to make Florence victorious in war and supreme in global commerce, brought together the elements of genius for which each of Mr. Masters's protagonists are known: Machiavelli's hard-headed, realistic political vision and Leonardo's startling prescience as an engineer.

For Salvatore J. Cassano, the city's fire commissioner, the idea to alter the protocols first took root in the 1990s, when he was a division commander in Brooklyn and saw a civilian killed after a fire truck racing to a minor event crashed in the street.

Additionally, they'll get a chance to vote on Proposal D -- a controversial idea to alter the current structure of the Detroit City Council to a council-by-district structure, similar to most large cities in the United States.

It's also a bad idea to alter your uniform in any way.

We can rapidly prototype and test ideas to alter our systems and lives.

A third idea is to alter redistricting so that parties are less able to gerrymander partisan congressional districts.

Medicinal chemists will immediately have ideas how to alter a given structure in order to gain activity.

Ronald K. Siegel wrote a book titled "Intoxication: Life in Pursuit of Artificial Paradise" in which he proposed a radical idea: the urge to alter our consciousness is a natural human drive, no different than the urge for sex or food.

Arnold Ekpe has three decades of experience in African banks and big ideas about how to alter the continent's economic landscape.