Amended Quotations

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.

We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.

We believe this plan does have a fighting chance of winning approval on the understanding that it's going to be discussed and probably modified or amended in some way,

This was a setup that was carefully constructed and manufactured by Ms. Bailey. She didn't let him send the amended agreement to his lawyer. She made him sign it in front of a notary who was a friend of hers.

My gut feeling is that there has been sufficient movement to merit supporting it in principle - at second reading - but I want to leave open that there may be things that need to be clarified or altered or amended at committee stage.

It is important to record that the Minister made it clear that the brief we got was a position taken by government at that stage of the process and we would like to believe that as we progress with the process and further input is received by the authorities, the substance of the current position as briefed may be amended to take into account the additional inputs.

Our original application included projections we made during the summer of 2005. Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina and the ever-increasing cost of fuel has made construction materials more expensive than we originally planned. We amended our original application to help balance the effect of those costs.

Management was a bigger concern to us than the finances. The reclamation just wasn't being done despite several amended agreements.

We are disappointed the court did not rule on Wal-Mart's fraud claims against Mr. Coughlin but instead upheld the release agreements on a technicality. We will file an amended complaint with additional evidence of fraud and fraudulent inducement.

You have to abide by the tournament rules. It said basically that they've now made a tournament rule that you have to have a number on your back. That's the way we read the letter. I haven't seen the amended page in the tournament handbook but I'm sure that's coming through.

We are satisfied that the amended offer constitutes full and fair value for the company.

The governor was only on the (corporate) jet a few times last year, maybe only once, always with other family members on family trips; once to Fillmore for the funeral of a relative. An amended federal filing will be made next week.

While we continue to oppose even the amended version, we knew that if we appeared before the committee, the chances were likely that the original version of the bill could be adopted.

The public input is essential to the overall process. I won't say that the charter is strengthened by this process but it is a very positive step to have the charter reviewed and essentially clarified where needed, or amended as needed. The process of reviewing the charter should be viewed as a positive step overall.

The zoning ordinance is always a work in progress and is amended from time to time and will be amended in the future. After so many years of amendments you have a document that is inconsistent. At some places it contradicts itself.

The terms of reference have been amended in accordance with Mr Cole's request that he be given until the end of June to deliver his report.

Our amended offer addresses all of the outstanding issues raised by Guidant's Board. We strongly encourage the Guidant Board to act in the best interests of Guidant shareholders by declaring our $73 per share offer superior to the revised $67.92 per share transaction with Johnson & Johnson.

After considering several offers for the company, (the board) has unanimously endorsed and is recommending that shareholders tender to the amended offer. We are satisfied the amended offer constitutes full and fair value for the company.

As a result of our investigation and our contact with the two companies, they have now amended their practices so that consumers will now be able to buy other brands of cars from dealerships that were previously exclusively for BMW, Mini and General Motors.

That treaty has been amended before, and there is no good reason it cannot be amended again to reflect new threats from third countries.

This motion sought to add things to our complaint in compliance with the Clean Air Act, which calls for 60 days notice, The granting of Alexandria's request to file an Amended Compliant will not disrupt this proceeding or unduly delay or prejudice the adjudication of the rights of the parties.

This is very revealing of the hypocrisy of the NRA, ... They would have the second amendment of the Constitution amended so it would also read 'a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of the people, no housing authority shall buy safe guns.'

It's a race against time over whether the Bush administration will be able to administer the act more sensibly so that people do not get so angry that the act will be overthrown by court or rewritten or substantially amended by Congress.

I truly understand the passion about where your child goes to school but dealing with it as proposed is just plain wrong and contradicts the idea of 'less government' where it doesn't belong. I also understand the politics here, I know the predicament the Governor will be placed in if the bill reaches his desk, and I ask each of you to do the right thing regardless of the political consequences and not sign the amended bill.

It may be that an amended protocol is adopted and upheld.

That, in a nutshell, explains why the Democratic speaker of the assembly, Fabian Nunez, quietly amended a bill this week to grant movie producers tens of millions of dollars in subsidies from a state treasury that already is drowning in red ink, with multibillion-dollar annual deficits.

It's never been amended to the detriment of the development community.

I'm certainly not an expert in the area and haven't followed and have no way of evaluating the relative effectiveness of the law as amended or the law as it was prior to 1982.

If plaintiffs were able to flesh out this argument in an amended complaint, it may establish that the dangers of McDonald's products were not commonly well known and thus that McDonald's had a duty towards its customers,

But it can only be modified or amended in ways that are satisfactory to the other parties.

I can confirm that the... personnel are not participating in customer visits. This is an error in the copy and will be amended in future material on the subject.

The Civil Service Board has been trying to get the rules and regulations amended for some time.

The Constitution was never amended to take away rights from a group of Americans.