Sentence examples for Amendments enacted from inspiring English sources

The legal amendments enacted on Friday bar Belarussian businesses from using outside internet resources.

His proposed changes came under fire because amendments enacted by Congress alone were unconstitutional, and the changes would strengthen the executive power.

Under the 1995 constitution the president was given extensive powers, but those were significantly reduced by constitutional amendments enacted in 2013 that expanded the role of the prime minister and the cabinet.

Constitutional amendments enacted under Saakashvili also shifted more power to the prime minister, a position Saakashvili evidently hoped to assume once his final presidential term ends in October 2013.

Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who was a leader in getting the 1986 amendments enacted, told Mr. Hertz that he did not think Congress had ever intended to exclude government employees from using the False Claims Act.

"Moreover, there is a public interest in ensuring the alleged duties relied upon are 'performed with reasonable care' — as evidenced by the recent flurry of consumer-oriented laws and amendments enacted in the wake of the 'subprime mortgage meltdown.' " UNTIL all the facts of the case are heard at trial, it is unclear whether the banks will be held liable for injury to Mr. Dawson's victims.

Justice Scalia has used the very same 14th Amendment, enacted to help African-Americans, to strike down affirmative-action programs designed to help African-Americans and other minorities.

Another stabilization tool is the zoning amendment, enacted two years ago, that allows vacant property formerly restricted to commercial use to be renovated as living and work space for artists.

The degree to which money influences politics is suggested by the passage of Proposition 8, the California constitutional amendment, enacted in November 2008, stating that "only a marriage between a man and woman is valid or recognized" in the state.

Despite the Boland amendment enacted by Congress, which prohibited any agency of the United States from providing military aid to the Nicaraguan contras, Abrams famously approached the Sultan of Brunei for funds.

Appearing before the justices, the solicitors general of New York and Michigan argued that the 21st Amendment, enacted to repeal Prohibition, gives the states the authority to regulate the importation of liquor.