He said he would not recommend the bill to Mr. Clinton unless the conference committee altered these and other provisions.

Though Mr. Yeltsin responded that these were simply editing changes, they appeared to substantially alter key provisions of the agreement.

This involved repealing Section 2 of the Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann) Act 1922, as well as altering provisions of the constitution.

And Governor Cuomo has formed a proposal to permit the buyouts, but alter other provisions of the Mitchell-Lama program, to make the conversions less attractive.

Moments after House members took the oath of office on Thursday, he said, the back-slapping gave way to impatient gavel-pounding and flaring tempers over a successful move by Democrats to push through a measure that would alter provisions of last year's budget agreement.

President Bush does not want Congress to alter the prescription drug benefit, scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, or other provisions of the 2003 Medicare law.

It even allows for a degree of experimentation in that the delegated legislation can be used to alter provisions in the parent act.

Rather, they say, they will probably chip at the margins, trying to alter provisions that hurt them most without damaging the package's one indisputable good: a smaller deficit.

Article 7 of the Water Framework Directive has already laid down the obligations for drinking water, and this compromise does not alter the relevant procedures and provisions.

Additionally, the Legislative Assembly may refer revisions to the Constitution; a revision differs from an amendment in that it may alter multiple provisions of the Constitution.