The modifications they introduced in the bills he proposed were often improvements; those they rejected were not always wise.

Modifications of space are distance, figure, place, length; since any length or measure of space can be repeated to infinity, we reach the idea of immensity.

All the modifications alluded to, which have hitherto been applied to the purposes of locomotion, are adaptations of plane surfaces.

Every human group, of whatever size or kind, is apt to think its characteristics peculiar to itself, when in fact they are as universal as human nature, and the modifications due to the group's environment are insignificant matters of mere surface.

The third modification is a combination of the two others, namely, the asexual special cell does not directly reproduce its parent form, but gives rise to a structure in which sexual special cells are developed, from whose coalescence springs again the likeness of the original plant.

I must reiterate my belief that the modification of the house itself to the life the twentieth century is calling for is the first step in social reform.

These modifications upon modifications, which result in evolution, structurally considered, are the accompaniments of those functional alterations continually required to re-equilibrate inner with outer actions.

Before, however, that modification can become the active wish of the people, its importance must be understood and its effects estimated.

Modification, in the direction of the most surprising betterment, is the miracle that has been wrought.

The principal modification was an increase of the interval between convoys, first, to four, and later to five days in order to relieve the strain on the Grand Fleet arising from the provision of covering forces; the disadvantage of the resultant increased size of the convoys had to be accepted.

The most important modifications of extension are rest and motion.

Modifications are inflections, or changes, in the terminations, forms, or senses, of some kinds of words.

Such instances, however, are extremely rare, and form the exceptions to the general rule; for "no reasonable doubt can be entertained, from the abundance of facts now before the world, that such modification is the law of the animal economy, and that the regular or natural progress is the exception.

He was inclined to think that, certain modifications allowed for, there would always be plenty of Harriet Rays for unworldly mothers to commend to their sons; and he had no desire to diminish their number by removing one from the ranks of the marriageable.