Andrew made a radical alteration in the internal policy followed by his predecessors and he began to bestow the royal estates to his partisans.

Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmEng prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object " fit " ( i. e., suited ) for a purpose ; in spatial transitive contexts, AmEng uses fitted for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that it surrounds ( e. g., " fitted X around Y ") but fit for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that surrounds it ( e. g., " fit X into Y "); and for the spatial senses ( both intransitive and transitive ) of having been matching with respect to contour, with no alteration of either object implied, AmEng prefers fit (" The clothes fit.

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

At the above mentioned turns ( Kandilli and Yenikoy ) where significant course alterations have to be made, the rear and forward sights are totally blocked prior to and during the course alteration.

The alteration to a " guitar " form made the instrument easier to hold and transport, and the addition of frets enabled bassists to play in tune more easily.

A budget for the Exposition was passed and on 1 May Lockroy announced an alteration to the terms of the open competition which was being held for a centerpiece for the exposition, which effectively made the choice of Eiffel's design a foregone conclusion: all entries had to include a study for a four-sided metal tower on the Champ de Mars.

Since the alteration became known it has given rise to debates among scholars as to whether Tacitus deliberately used the term Chrestians, or if a scribe made an error during the Middle Ages.

Meanwhile, Stor Gendibal, a prominent member of the Second Foundation, discovers a simple local — who lives on the same planet as the Second Foundation — has had a minor alteration made to her mind.

The alteration of the military flintlock to the percussion musket was easily accomplished by replacing the powder pan and steel " frizzen " with a nipple, and by replacing the cock or hammer which held the flint by a smaller hammer formed with a hollow made to fit around the nipple when released by the trigger.

Sir Walter Alcock, who was organist of the cathedral from 1916, oversaw a strictly faithful restoration of the famous Father Willis organ, even going to such lengths as to refuse to allow parts of the instrument to leave the cathedral in case any unauthorised tonal alteration were made without his knowledge.

This was the last major structural alteration to the cathedral to be made.

If so, Geoffrey's alteration of the name to Cordeilla made it unrecognizable to his Welsh translators, who failed to use the name Creiddylad in their Latin-to-Welsh translations of Historia Regum Britanniae.

Additionally it was also declared that no patents of arms or any ensigns of nobility should be granted and no augmentation, alteration, or addition should be made to arms without the consent of the Earl Marshal.

An important alteration in the wording of the Kol Nidre was made by Rashi's son-in-law, Rabbi Meir ben Samuel ( early 12th century ), who changed the original phrase " from the last Day of Atonement until this one " to " from this Day of Atonement until the next.

It was Rabbenu Tam, however, who accounted for the alteration made by his father as already stated, and who also tried to change the perfects of the text, " which we have vowed ," " have sworn ," etc., to imperfects.

Once that alteration was made, the final charter was confirmed on June 20, 1632.

Pope Urban VIII made further changes, including " a profound alteration in the character of some of the hymns.

Borates, which made up a large portion of Death Valley's historical past were concentrated in the lakebeds from hot spring waters and alteration of rhyolite in the nearby volcanic field.

In January 1905 an inter-colonial native affairs commission reported on the native question as it affected South Africa as a whole, proposals being made for an alteration of the laws in Cape Colony respecting the franchise exercised by natives.

In the fashion industry, designers produce ready-to-wear clothing intended to be worn without significant alteration, because clothing made to standard sizes fits most people.

The distinctive sound of an instrument with a sound box owes a lot to the alteration made to the tone.

The U. S. Navy tables recommend that no alteration be made for dives at altitudes lower than 91 meters ( 300 feet ) and dives between 91 meters and 300 meters correction is required for dives over 44 meters sea water ( 145 feet sea water ).

Perhaps this would be sufficient to justify an economic boycott of an entire national chain in order, by threatening potential injury to its entire economy, to effect an alteration of the policy of its local stores in the matter of segregation.

This green silicate may give rise by alteration to a brown iron oxide ( limonite ), producing a rusty appearance on the outside of the agate-nodule.

One well-known story ( quoted in Berry, page 261 ) was that he saw the change of direction of a wind vane on a boat on the Thames, caused not by an alteration of the wind itself, but by a change of course of the boat relative to the wind direction.

The most notable alteration is the shortening of most feasts from nine to three lessons at Matins, keeping only the Scripture readings ( the former lesson i, then lessons ii and iii together ), followed by either the first part of the patristic reading ( lesson vii ) or, for most feasts, a condensed version of the former second Nocturn, which was formerly used when a feast was reduced in rank and commemorated.

" Thus, even when reception was effected by a constitution, the common law was still subject to alteration by a legislature's statute.

A second aspect of printer technology that is often forgotten is resistance to alteration: liquid ink, such as from an inkjet head or fabric ribbon, becomes absorbed by the paper fibers, so documents printed with liquid ink are more difficult to alter than documents printed with toner or solid inks, which do not penetrate below the paper surface.

The manner in which Xavier's powers function indicates that his telepathy is physical in some way, as it can be enhanced by physical means ( for example, Cerebro ) and can be disrupted by physical means ( for example, Magneto's alteration of the Earth's magnetic field ).

" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.

In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection ( regular alteration according to rules of grammar ).

Although alteration or transformation of jazz by new influences has often been initially criticized as a “ debasement ,” Andrew Gilbert argues that jazz has the “ ability to absorb and transform influences ” from diverse musical styles.

Because Malpighi was concerned with teratology ( the scientific study of the visible conditions caused by the interruption or alteration of normal development ) he expressed grave misgivings about the view of his contemporaries that the galls of trees and herbs gave birth to insects.

The likeliest possibility is an alteration, by influence of Latin niger " black ", of the Tuareg name egerew < u > n-iger </ u > ewen, which is used along the middle reaches of the river around Timbuktu.

Pytheas however could not then answer for himself, or protect his own work from loss or alteration, so most of the questions concerning his voyage remain unresolved, to be worked over by every generation.

The harmonics set up by vibratory or impact hammers drastically change the ability of given soils to create wall friction on a given pile type, as well as the elastic alteration or resistance to penetration in a normal state.

Because, on the surface, the organization of the state had been preserved by the first emperors without significant alteration.

Section 508 § 1194. 3 General exceptions describe exceptions for national security ( e. g., most of the primary systems used by the National Security Agency ( NSA )), incidental items not procured as work products, individual requests for non-public access, fundamental alteration of a product's key requirements, or maintenance access.

And whereas it is meet and proper to set out by way of preamble to this Act that, inasmuch as the Crown is the symbol of the free association of the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and as they are united by a common allegiance to the Crown, it would be in accord with the established constitutional position of all the members of the Commonwealth in relation to one another that any alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles shall hereafter require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as of the Parliament of the United Kingdom:

* Transformation ( genetics ), genetic alteration of a cell by DNA uptake

Madonna Filippa, being found by her husband with her lover, is cited before the court, and by a ready and clever answer acquits herself, and brings about an alteration of the statute.