When Lois' father, Carter, sits down at the breakfast table, Lois states: "Daddy, did you remember to clean up?" Originally, she was meant to say, "Daddy, did you remember to wipe yourself?", but broadcasting standards objected, so it was modified to "Daddy, did you remember to clean yourself?" However, standards still objected, so it was changed to its current version.
The law was originally passed to aid small businesses, but later it was modified so that even big companies like Pharmacia could benefit.
It was modified so that it could receive email but couldn't make calls, and didn't have a camera or microphone that foreign adversaries could use to glean any knowledge that the president was working on.
In crustaceans, rate of oxygen consumption can be so sensitive that it is modified by a great variety of factors, both internal (body size, activity level, starvation, moulting cycle and biological rhythm) and external (salinity, light intensity, oxygen concentration, light dark cycle and temperature) (Cockcroft and Wooldridge 1985; Ali et al. 2000; Crear and Forteath 2000; Valverde et al. 2009).
In other words, Obama and his lawyers have made the 2001 resolution so elastic that, unless it is modified or rescinded, it presents an open invitation for abuse to any future Commander-in-Chief.
If it were modified so that the executor of the will misread it to give the reprobate son almost everything, then we would think that the loving son deserved to get his rightful share under the will.
This task is similar to the weather prediction task, variations of which have been used in other human and animal studies (Knowlton et al., 1996; Yang and Shadlen, 2007), but it is modified so that we can differentiate deficits in learning and memory from information integration impairment (Fig. 2).
It would be inconsistent with public policy, and the department "intends to object" to the application unless it is modified so the new structures stay within the existing facility, he said.
It's alive somehow, and it's so powerful that it's modifying you.
So, in some areas, it is modifying its attitude and official rhetoric (while keeping intense pressure on Buddhist Tibetans and Muslim Uighurs, whose religious beliefs are seen to threaten the integrity of the state).
But Mr. Beller of the S.E.C. said that "the rule should cover" such a case and that if it did not do so it might be modified.
