Sentence examples for was so modified from inspiring English sources

Adopted in 1967, the doctrine of "flexible response" was so modified in the early 1970's and the 80's that it came to resemble the doctrine of massive retaliation and deterrence with which NATO was born.

They cannot be so modified by the Greek government.

No other river in Japan has been so modified by human activity.

The right or left fourth arm of the squid, for example, is so modified.

Most present-day varieties are so modified from their wild progenitors that they are unable to survive in nature.

We direct that Article VI of the decree be so modified as generally to conform to the above suggestions.

Understanding this relationship makes it possible to identify organs such as leaves that are so highly modified they no longer look like leaves, or stems that are so modified that they resemble leaves.

Some of the parasitic forms are so modified and specialized as adults that they can only be recognized as crustaceans by features of their life histories.

Maritime air mass, vast body of air of oceanic origin; also, an air mass that has had a long trajectory over water and has been so modified that it has the characteristics of an air mass of oceanic origin.

Except in the case of a written determination that is modified or revoked on account of § 1.6662-4(d)(3)(iv)(A)(1), a written determination that is modified or revoked as described in § 1.6662-4(d)(3)(iv)(A)(2) ceases to be authority on the date, and to the extent, it is so modified or revoked.

Whether or not the latest test for a national missile defense system "succeeds" (news article, July 6) -- and considering that the conditions for this test have been so modified from real-world conditions that such success is a near certainty -- is beside the point.