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    1. Strenhowell had said, “However should you find that it is insufficient, we will arrange for semi-annual appraisals of your contributions to this firm and amend your compensation accordingly


    2. We've given him two extra chances to amend his decision have we not?"


    3. We may furthermore amend our argument by stating that someone who has more of something is ―better off‖ than that someone who


    4. He decided he wanted a nice distraction, something to take his mind of a situation he now felt powerless to amend


    5. sense into the process? Could Congress amend the act to place more value on people and their land and


    6. Gould’s theory that was meant to amend the earlier evolutionary understanding of even and gradual progression


    7. Lord, and they gave it to the workmen that brought in the house of the Lord, to repair and amend the house, 11 Even to the artificers


    8. now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he has


    9. 23 But you have mercy on all; for you can do all things, and wink at the sins of men, because they should amend


    10. Is it possible to add some sense into the process? Could Congress amend the act to place more value on people and their land and jobs than on insects, critters, bugs and stuff?

    11. This guy, about my age, “13th stepped her” which I surprisingly never suspected, so I was surprised when she made that amend to me after she became “terminal


    12. Why didn’t Congress over the years amend the 1970 National


    13. rescind it but they might try to amend it


    14. In the past, all the Senate has done when they amend a bill is make it worse


    15. I am well-aware of Chapter XXIIX of our Rule: "Of Those Who Have Often Been Corrected, But Do Not Amend


    16. If therefore you believe and listen to my words and walk in them and amend your ways you shall have it in your power to live: but if you remain in wickedness and in the recollection of offences no sinner of that class will live unto God


    17. Well, I should amend that


    18. find a way to override us, can amend the information without our


    19. The first act of Congress was to amend the


    20. He knew he would find the river there and amend his sorry future

    21. The first option to implement is to amend a sentence within your press release


    22. you can amend your website to improve your conversion rates


    23. Now, therefore, amend your ways and reform your doings and obey the voice of the Lord your God that you may escape the evil which has been pronounced against you


    24. “To the priest and nuns that propagates the devotion of adoration, I will grant many special graces, the complete recognition of their sins and the grace to amend them


    25. Let me amend that


    26. I think I need to amend it


    27. And amend the following two files:


    28. Amend the, path/to/codeigniter/application/models/users_model


    29. Amend the following two files:


    30. And amend the following three files:

    31. This view will display a summary of a customer's cart at any one time, and allow that customer to amend the quantities of items in their cart


    32. Amend the file to show the following (changes in bold):


    33. Amend the code to reflect the following (changes in bold):


    34. In order to let CodeIgniter interact with two or more databases, we'll need to amend a few settings in the config file at:


    35. You will need to amend the permissions for the destination folder so that they are at a level high enough to allow CodeIgniter to write to it


    36. Amend the code in the model to reflect the following: function insert_data($data) {


    37. amend the SQL accordingly


    38. and amend the following two files:


    39. Amend the following function in the image_manip library:


    40. php file in your editor and amend accordingly (the changes are highlighted):

    41. I will amend where I did slack,


    42. So a law of the jungle had ended up into an urban mode controlled out by syndicates that were bound with corruptions but were compensated with grief and pity to make good and amend for the mistakes that they incurred


    43. The Supreme Court had ruled that Vodafone was not liable to pay the tax but now the government was seeking to amend tax laws retrospectively to bring Vodafone-like deals in the tax net


    44. Predictably, Indira stretched her father’s Muslim leanings to ludicrous lengths in claiming the membership for India in the Organization of Islamic Countries on the premise that it was the home for the largest body of the Musalmans in the world! Naturally, the Rabbat snub, engineered by Pakistan, rubbed salt into the wounded Hindu pride, which the Congress party didn’t mind to amend


    45. “But you had the courage to amend the ill you had wrought


    46. Following that, I will go back to the play and amend as necessary, before re-distributing the lines for a final, and un-amendable read through


    47. was used to amend the first two Amendments of the Bill of Rights to say that


    48. “In this manner, inequalities can exist forever in democracies, whenever the unequal either lack the votes to amend its equality to the tome of inequalities,” the cycling of faces ceased


    49. “There is none, because they have not, because they cannot, amend love to a constitution


    50. “When love is the state, what need will there be to amend new rights to a lifestyle of equality and compassion?”
































    1. His own travel accommodations were amended from one to four with his chosen commercial carriers, and they were off


    2. “We have amended the decree to allow all male wielders to continue to touch teron once a week, wielding Air to form defences as they continue to practice becoming Blademasters, their new station, and a place of high honour within our armies


    3. Felicity soon amended the situation when she appeared in the bathroom doorway with


    4. “Maybe a stop by the infirmary would be a good idea first,” she amended with a reluctant sigh


    5. Her comments and suggestions were in all honesty fantastic and I amended my assignment accordingly


    6. “Yes,” Charles amended, “though the mechanism would not address the most basic reason why people don’t vote, it should at least help increase voter turnout


    7. amended in 1973 to “require that species be listed „without reference to possible economic or other


    8. It is also very probable that the regulations could be amended to better apply to the local


    9. promise should be amended to make it feasible


    10. Chief Justice Marshall, a Federalist himself, in effect single handedly amended the Constitution to serve the Federalist purpose of judicial supremacy

    11. There is, of course, the alternative view that “freezing” the Constitution as written, unless amended as provided for by Article 5 therein, was precisely the purpose of writing and adopting it


    12. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was amended in 1973 to ―require that species be listed ‗without reference to possible economic or other impacts‘ ‖and was going to preserve species that would be lost due to various factors – mostly people who did not care about such things


    13. The Constitution does not change (unless it is amended)


    14. The Constitution spells out quite clearly how it can be amended


    15. It is no longer on the books and can never be amended or changed


    16. Articles 15 to 23 can, where appropriate, be amended by a protocol of amendment


    17. Return” was amended by deputies members of the leading party, PDL, and


    18. 91 of 1997; amended No


    19. a) in Paragraph 1, Item 2 shall be amended as follows: ―2


    20. will be amended so to encompass Exbrus’ operations in South America

    21. givest Thy grace when they have amended their


    22. "You takin' avantage a that?" Seeing Trask's frown, he amended, "Sorry—don't mean nothin'


    23. because the previous ones had to be “erased” and amended


    24. What are your needs, faith or beliefs that should be cast off, amputated or amended? They no longer serve a purpose or goal


    25. ’ He amended the appointment column so it appeared that his appointment had been with Bill Mason, not Roger Cook


    26. These informal notes of Andrew's were subsequently edited, amended, altered, and added to until they made up a fairly consecutive narrative of the Master's life on earth


    27. The last of these few altered and amended copies was destroyed by fire at Alexandria about one hundred years after the original was written by the first chosen of the twelve apostles


    28. While he later amended this analysis, perhaps there is a grain of


    29. decade or two, and may be amended only in specific instances with the


    30. So, after I pointed out this incorrect tax calculation, I asked the question: “Can we file amended returns

    31. the few that needed alterations were amended there and then


    32. The user will click on the forgot password link in the amended signin form (/path/to/


    33. We've amended public function index() so that we can filter the user's browsing results by $category_id (which is the primary key of each category in the database)


    34. After a lifetime of consideration, this truthful answer might be amended


    35. the unused form from the second delivery of forms and write it out with the amended quantities! By


    36. “It’s only a pirate ship so far as the slavery is concerned,” he amended, carefully


    37. He sat upon Schmoozeglutton’s throne, he amended to himself with a scowl


    38. How creative! Here he thought he had been carrying around a grapping hook, when all this time he had also been carrying around an anchor! A land anchor, he amended to himself, which would surely stop a form of land transportation just as a water anchor would stop a form of water transportation! It was a brilliant solution


    39. “Well, perhaps not nonexistent,” he amended


    40. A failed pizza delivery boy, he amended

    41. "And Louie is the six star general," amended the tall guy with the weed-wacker


    42. “The Clean Air Act has been amended with new NCIS field data, and a new mandate passed


    43. They claim the constitution was amended back in 1913 at the same time the Federal Reserve Bank was created, but less than fifty percent of the states voted to ratify that amendment, which is required by law to change the constitution


    44. suggested she wasn’t having it, so he amended his statement, “in public


    45. It was amended in the paperwork that would seal the


    46. From time to time, a constitution may be amended to better reflect changing circumstances, and in some cases discarded and reformulated


    47. Debates had been debated, referenda had been held and won, votes had been taken, elections had been held, Parliamentary Bills had been tabled, amended and eventually passed, allies had been consulted, new treaties had been ratified and old ones re-drafted


    48. Torture is now constitutionally illegal in Jordan; the Jordanian government amended their constitution to make this so in 2011


    49. He saw John�s confusion at the names and amended himself, �Forgive me, John, but I�m still a little flustered by all this


    50. A sudden thought popping into his head, he quickly amended his last statement, “Actually, you know what? Can you grab me two buckets of fried chicken?”











































    1. He stated that the ballot wording lacked the phrase “be it enacted” and therefore, the voters didn’t know they were amending the constitution, despite eight


    2. Amending these laws to include a


    3. In regard to amending your application


    4. The Cart class in CodeIgniter provides basic shopping cart functionality, such as adding items, amending the cart, displaying cart details, and removing items within the cart


    5. Fred Ford was amending his list and added, "This really should be standard


    6. 6 Those who wish it to do so should try amending the U


    7. For what are democracies, but the institutionally slow apparatus for amending rights of equality to constitutions of inequality one long laborious issue at a time


    8. The goal of democracy is to eliminate the need for endlessly amending rights of access to a broken system by transcending majority rule with universal equality


    9. Fripon reversing your results, and now, Uncle Ken amending results and as well apologising to a student? Who gave monkey banana? I mean, these achievements are simply incredible and unheard of in this campus


    10. ” He replied, amending his statement

    11. For the amending of every thing that is amiss in the church, the reviving of primitive Christianity, and the power of godliness, and in order thereunto, the pouring out of the spirit


    12. Then they crept out of the cockpit and looked around, amending their crumpled outfits and tousled hair


    13. You can eat very well by simply amending recipes to save on fats, carbohydrates, sugar and calories


    14. In order to preserve our freedom, it may be necessary to resolve these problems by amending the Constitution to enact term limits and eliminate the practice of gerrymandering


    15. —I mean, for Willie Hughes, Mr Best said, amending his gloss easily


    16. In between meetings, I was on the House floor voting on everything from increased accountability and transparency for lobbyists, to prohibitions on price gouging in the sale of gasoline and other fuels, to amending the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA to reform pension funding rules


    17. Levin could not help recalling every word he had said, and in imagination amending his own replies


    18. It is our considered view that the nation’s interest would be served by amending the Securities Act so as to prohibit the public offering of securities of new and definitely unseasoned ventures


    19. At the same time, adding more long or short combinations (thereby amending the resulting ratio of long and short combinations) may bring about the fundamental change in the shape of the portfolio payoff function


    20. "Resolved, That the same committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the act laying an embargo, and the several acts supplementary and additional thereto

    21. All that we have to do, it appears to me, is to make a provision, in the nature of a declaratory law, not amending the act of 1807, but, declaring what the law is; and we ought to quiet the rights, and the mind too, of every man in society, by declaring that, by the act of 1807, it was not intended to authorize the President of the United States to interpose the bayonet between the courts of justice and the individual


    22. The thirteen States under this Confederation conducted themselves safely through the war; but finding, in 1787, that their requisitions had not been duly respected, and that New York had rejected some necessary commercial regulations, whereby their fiscal affairs were deranged, Congress, by a resolution, resolved that a convention of States should be held for the express purpose of amending the articles of Confederation


    23. —Believing, as I do, that the Constitution of the United States is not perfect, and as provision is made in the body of the instrument for amending its imperfections in the manner therein prescribed, I feel it an imperious duty to propose an amendment to it


    24. "Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the naturalization laws of the United States as to admit to the rights of citizenship such aliens as have emigrated from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and her dependencies to the United States or her Territories previous to the eighteenth day of June, 1812, and that the committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise


    25. McKee, from the select committee which was directed to inquire into the propriety of amending the act for the government of the Missouri Territory, reported against any amendment


    26. —In the House, resolution relative to amending the law, offered, 543;


    27. relative to amending the act for the Government of the Missouri Territory, 707;


    1. Her husband was not impressed when she eventually returned home minus the shopping trolley, without any money and too scared to make amends for her failings by popping down to the off-licence for him


    2. In Virgenia's Jools and Robbie were in good spirits and seemed to think I should accept Mercouri's apology, make amends and forget it - after all he was just a bit drunk


    3. He’s cooked for the woman, for Christ's sake, pleading guilty, under house arrest, but he loves her and he wants to make amends


    4. He wasn’t getting any younger and he needed to make amends before it was too late


    5. She had been meaning to make amends with Caroline for months


    6. Please, give me a chance to make amends,” said Ethan, sounding genuinely sincere


    7. There was no way to make amends


    8. He could make no amends that would give him a second chance


    9. 3 "But these forty three days cannot make amends for the hour in which you did transgress My commandment


    10. 16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he has done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it to the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him

    11. Is more than amends for all the


    12. He is eager to make amends for his late great-uncle King Sorrin’s crimes on behalf of Zarkog’s conspiracy


    13. “You’re always welcome here, but as to amends, you’ll have to ask my wife


    14. The only way she can rectify the situation is by making amends, and I don’t know if that is even possible


    15. I told her in that case, Mother is precisely whom she will have to approach in order to arrange the meeting, and that she can invite her guides, particularly White Eagle, and we will see if she’s allowed to make amends


    16. have the possibility to make amends for it, by recognizing it as something


    17. but we don’t have the ability to make amends for our offenses


    18. amends for our wrong and we can not ask to receive as a gift what it should be


    19. A prisoner is given adequate time to think over their crime and make amends or choose a new direction in life


    20. wanted to live, wanted a chance to make amends with Michael;

    21. The past will continue to haunt you if you do not recognise your mistakes and make amends for them


    22. ” Dana says, then amends hurriedly, “next to Markus, of course


    23. When the psychiatrist told him that it was not too late to make amends and pay


    24. The house was filled with gifts meant as amends


    25. not to be confused with the terrorist group that made amends


    26. I was thankful that Corey and I had made amends


    27. Amends obviates punishment and truly “makes up for”


    28. I have made my amends, and my values are good and true, and I like who I am


    29. While justice cannot bring back the deceased in murder cases it might be more important to have the perpetrator try to make amends to the victim’s family by working him in prison and taking moneys from his wages there to pay the family, crime victim compensation, rather than just have him serve time as a punishment (retribution)


    30. ” She did not fully believe in Mary-Anne’s God but she felt the older woman’s plea to make amends before it was too late was simply common sense based on bitter experience

    31. I would make international apologies for interdicting electrical and water and sewer facilities wherever we did on the hunt for bad guys in any homes in these war zones at any time during our assault on their lands, and I would offer lots of goats by commanders personally to people in villages where civilian population was hurt (or make amends otherwise suitable to the people injured)


    32. but for thousands of years we cried unto you to make immaculate amends!


    33. The goings on of Antioch was no worse for wear because of my arrival, for I’d made amends to all that I hurt with my shenanigans, and now awaited the eastern sky to announce itself with new beginnings, so I could once again head in the northwest direction


    34. Be careful with amends


    35. Is there any way in which I can make amends for our gross insensitivity? He frowns deeply, but his expression stays just as stoic, still with the same hint of contempt


    36. How pleasant it is to meet a single saint now for a few short hours! How it cheers and refreshes us, like snow in summer or sunshine after clouds! What, then, will it be when we shall see an enormous company of saints, without a single unconverted sinner to spoil the harmony, all men and women of faith, and none unbelievers, all wheat and no chaff, "a multitude which no man can number"! Surely the "many" we shall see in heaven will make ample amends for the "few" that we now see upon earth


    37. When our gracious Queen at the end of the Crimean war came forward in front of the Horse Guards, and with her own royal hands gave the Victoria Cross to the gallant soldiers who had earned it, that public honour made rich amends for all that those soldiers had gone through


    38. However, the Brahmans, as though to make amends for the sins of their forefathers, strived hard to clear the social debris that Brahmanism had left on the Indian soil


    39. ‘I think you should try to make amends with her


    40. When man puts the rules and the systems, before long he changes and amends a part of them for the defects of deficiency that appear to him in them or for being insufficient to fufill the age’s requirements

    41. She attempted to make amends


    42. amends for his parenting errors


    43. ’ Then she embraced her and made amends by telling her how fond she was of her and how much she loved her


    44. He was showing an interest in affairs of state and wanted to be there when Bradford was forced to make amends


    45. Lawrence in order to make amends for the destructionby Spanish artillery of a church that bore his name


    46. Must there be so much explaining? It was because I thought I was making amends that way for having, though unconsciously, led you to fancy you cared for me last year


    47. Cookham with the intention of trying to make amends, he was just going to say something amiable when she startled him by suddenly exclaiming, "I really don't understand how men can bring themselves to do such dreadful


    48. Since then there had been no intercourse with Glambeck, and the Baroness did not know of the satisfactory turn things had taken at the parsonage till on Christmas Eve, from her gallery in church to which she and the Baron had decided to return on the greater festivals as a mark of their awareness that Herr Dremmel desired to make amends, she beheld during the drawn-out verses of the chorale Ingeborg drop sideways on the seat in her pew below and remain motionless and bunched up, her hymn-book pushed crooked on the desk in front of her, and her attitude one of complete indifference to appearances


    49. Tussie tried to make amends for having obstructed her plans by exerting himself to the utmost to entertain the children as far as decorum allowed


    50. As for Emma, she was hunted out by that detective who travelled down into Somersetshire with the fugitives and who had already been so useful to the Prince; and Priscilla, desperately anxious to make amends wherever she could, took her into her own household, watching over her herself, seeing to it that no word of what she had done was ever blown about among the crowd of idle tongues, and she ended, I believe, by marrying a lacquey,--one of those splendid persons with white silk calves who were so precious in the sight of Annalise



































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    Synonyms for "amend"

    amend rectify remediate remedy repair ameliorate better improve meliorate adjust correct right restore cure

    "amend" definitions

    make amendments to


    to make better


    set straight or right