The most credible reforms are structural for example, higher retirement ages and changes to benefit formulas and difficult to alter once they are implemented.

To achieve this, SWFs must alter their investment pattern.

Now, too, as borrowers find credit increasingly difficult to obtain, and as resentment toward banks and those responsible for regulating them grows accordingly, we can expect demands for political intervention to alter the distribution of credit.

No spin can alter this fact.

But existing efforts to alter the situation remain woefully inadequate.

Therefore, medications, which can more reliably alter the urine pH, rather than diet modification, have been the treatment of choice when trying to alter the pH of the urine.

China has made a conscious strategic decision to alter its growth strategy.

There are no measures that alter this risk.

And should anyone alter it after hearing it , its sin shall indeed lie on those who alter it . Indeed Allah is all hearing , all knowing .

And should anyone alter it after hearing it , its sin shall indeed lie on those who alter it . Indeed Allah is all hearing , all knowing .

Such a response is hardly likely to alter the mindset of potential recruits.

The EU cannot alter the international coalition s strategy alone.

And just as you use the remote control device to alter the internal settings of your television to suit your mood, you use your language to alter the settings inside someone else's brain to suit your interests.

China is clearly seeking to exploit India s political disarray to alter the reality on the ground.

But the very purpose of the agreement with UNDP was to alter the existing structures.

A Somali Government would considerably alter this landscape of personal kingdoms.

Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the alter are partakers with the alter?

Changing leaders will in no way alter these conditions for making peace.

Today s short term crisis does not materially alter their long term prospects.

The biggest question is whether the war will alter Hamas political goals.

Cuban officials stress that the purpose of these changes is to increase efficiency, not to alter the socialist model.

If the European Court of Justice, for example, were to strike down the European Union (EU) mechanism because the system is deemed to violate due process, it might not alter EU member States' obligations to the United Nations to enforce the sanctions, but it would make it much more difficult for them to do so.

No one pretends that we can prevent or alter the forces of nature.

All of these changes could alter the use and pricing of real estate.

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

It was also envisaged that they would not substantially alter domestic legal regimes.

But, in order to foster such a partnership, they must first alter their negative perceptions of each other.

East Asian policymakers understand that there is little that they can do to alter their neighbors political systems.

Pleomorphism, in microbiology, is the ability of some bacteria to alter their shape or size in response to environmental conditions.

If you alter the plan, you must inform the team members of the changes.

If you alter the plan, you must inform the team members of the changes.

One can be reasonably certain, however, that Jolie s decision will alter the roles available to her as an actress.

The more economic power China has amassed, the greater its ambition to alter the territorial status quo has become.

Moreover, a change in China s exchange rate would do little to alter the multilateral trade deficit in the US.

More than 50 years on, genes remain crucial to understanding complex diseases especially given scientists ever improving ability to alter them.

More than 50 years on, genes remain crucial to understanding complex diseases especially given scientists ever improving ability to alter them.

Something difficult to explain.

Chaos in Syria would threaten Lebanon s stability and alter Iran s geopolitical influence in the region.

This divergence on fiscal policy has many causes, and no single shock will alter it.

But at the same time, traditionalists worry that non native speakers may alter the language.

Any change that does not alter the behavior of the software can be considered refactoring.

No such constituent assembly could therefore be expected to alter the nature of Puerto Rico's relations with the United States.

For without that, one difficult journey would be not merely difficult but close to impossible.

It is difficult to generalize.

Each is its own industrial revolution, and will profoundly alter our lives and ways of thinking.