The phrase 'modify the status' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe actions that change the existing condition of something, such as policies, laws, applications, etc. For example: "The student's visa application was denied, but we were able to modify the status by providing additional paperwork."
Bob Newman New York, April 9, 2008 To the Editor: Lack of success after five years equals failure, no matter how you modify the status assessment.
Its originality lies in a compact representation of both components of the model and its corresponding actions: each action can modify the status of a component, and is conditioned by the status of at most one other component.
Similarly, the activate_periphera function is provided to modify the status of the tachistoscopic glasses.
Continued Japanese restraint in the face of Chinese efforts to modify the status quo is currently keeping the peace, potentially to the detriment of Japan's claim to the islands and its ability to use the surrounding sea area.
If the Iraqi government says that, we'll probably stay because ONLY THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT CAN MODIFY THE STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT.
One party enacts some of its agenda; then the other party, when it gains power, undoes or modifies the status quo.
It might be good English to say that the French Revolution "modified" the status of the French nobility--but only because there is a figure of speech called understatement and a literary device known as sarcasm.
This attack modifies the status of several circuit breakers, as well as jams (blocks in the communication) of flow measurements on transmission lines, which are technically easier to change than meter measurements [16].
This suggested that defects of the mitochondrial function in BCPAP cells may have induced a retrograde pathway modifying the status of cell phosphorylation [29].
Various kinases might modify the phosphorylation status of SIG1 under different environmental conditions, and the phosphorylation status of SIG1 might change its specificity in promoter binding and recognition.
Flexibility to modify, repair, and recycle steel bridges is a result of the ability to modify the current status of the bridges such as widening the bridges to accommodate more lanes of traffic.
