1.   According to Planned Parenthood, parental consent laws have sharply altered abortion patterns.

2.   By freeing the president from having to accept or reject bills as a whole, the law altered the dynamics of the budget process.

3.   Casey said it is untrue that the new law altered a standing exemption covering Revolutionary-type muskets and replicas.

4.   Levy, the drug-development expert, says the Bayh-Dole law has altered that equation.

5.   The new law could alter this strategy of tax avoidance, and stop the gifts flowing to the children.

6.   The continuing fall of share prices illustrates the fact that laws alone cannot alter the direction of events.

7.   But the new law fundamentally alters the habeas corpus, which is designed to protect citizens from abusive imprisonment.