"But every hundred pages or so — " she looked up forlornly — "there's one sentence that goes on for three pages, full of modifying clauses and gerunds".
Appearing on CNN today, Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said that officials at the Treasury Department had insisted that he modify a clause he had inserted into the stimulus bill that prohibited bonuses from being issued by bailed-out companies.
The committee, among others, attempts to address two pressing electoral concerns - removing or modifying the clause that prevents Aung San Suu Kyi from becoming the country's president, and allowing states to choose their own chief ministers.
His modifying clauses are abstract.
A single sentence builds through its multiple modifying clauses, across lines and stanzas that seem here to flinch from anticipated punishment, toward the final, painful disclosure.
"But today," he added, "the court takes all the starch out of its rule with an assortment of adjectives, adverbs and modifying clauses".
The pharmaceutical industry wants Congress to modify the cancer clause in the pending color-additives bill--a clause prohibiting the use of carcinogens in food, drugs, & cosmetics.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, April 2 , 1960P. 95 The pharmaceutical industry wants Congress to modify the cancer clause in the pending color-additives bill--a clause prohibiting the use of carcinogens in food, drugs, & cosmetics.
"The effect of [Linden's] unilateral right to modify the arbitration clause is that it could..
Linden's right to modify the arbitration clause is also significant.
