Modified in sentence

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The Royal Spanish Academy, all of language academies, also believes that spelling should be progressively modified; that language is linked to history, tradition and custom, but that at the same time, it is a practical everyday tool and that sometimes this attachment to history, tradition and custom becomes an obstacle for its current usage.

A little British company called Oxitec genetically modified that mosquito so that when it mates with a wild female, its eggs don't develop to adulthood.

So why aren't we using this remarkable biological control in the US? That's because it's a GMO: a genetically modified organism.

So now I have to tell you the short form of the long, torturous story of GM regulation in the US In the US, there are three agencies that regulate genetically modified organisms: the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the USDA, US Department of Agriculture.

Took these folks two years to decide that it would be the FDA that would regulate the genetically modified mosquito.

When the local residents heard that there would be genetically modified mosquitoes tested in their community some of them began to organize protests.

Here are some of them: genetically modified food, animal research, human evolution.

This is a steel drum here that has been modified, and that's what happens when you put Africa in a piano.

And then there are modified devices, which are also called "mods."

And this doorknob isn't modified.

The bacteria in my research are not genetically modified frankenbugs.

There isn't a square meter of ground in the entire country that hasn't been reclaimed from the sea, or otherwise moved, modified and manicured to look as if it had always been there.

By the way, just so you know: you get stressed out about genetically modified organisms; there is not one single vine in this valley or anywhere that is not genetically modified.

The capacity to create, as this mouse has been genetically modified, something which goes three times faster, lasts for three times longer, we could produce, as this mouse can, to the age of our equivalent of 80 years, using about the same amount of food.

There is also modeling work that has demonstrated that even if you were to release just a small number of these genetically modified mosquitoes, that you can actually achieve elimination very, very quickly.

Because it is a kind of object with a conscience, able to be modified by its surroundings, and able to modify it as well.

That's what I really like about it, the fact that I haven't got to go and buy it, and it hasn't been genetically modified at all.

I knew that if I was going to make a change in the industry, I had to use my background and really figure out how to make these clothes modified.

So, we modified the optics of the camera in order to mimic the baby's visual acuity.

Britain will starve without genetically modified crops.

Every single thing we eat, every grain of rice, every sprig of parsley, every Brussels sprout has been modified by man.

We modified their screens to add touch sensors and their power system to run from rechargeable batteries.

But he has modified a two-wheeler so that he can get autonomy and freedom and flexibility.

And this is a donkey cart which they modified.

You took a pathogen, you modified it, you injected it into a person or an animal and you saw what happened.

But what Uwe Boll has done here, is to take the game and modified every one of its good aspects and turned them into something horrible (well not the length, the movie runs only a merciful 90 min) The characters are even more stereotypical than in the game, which is quite an achievement.

I can honestly say I modified my schedule so I could be home to watch every episode.

Riddick is somewhat of a bad-ass convict and has modified his eyes so he is able to see in the dark which is a much sought after ability due to the situation the ship-crew and he gets in.

Everybody has seen tons of these movies already, and "National Treasure" is like any one of them, with only a slightly modified wrapping.

The zombies are also modified.

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