Sentence examples for General amendment from inspiring English sources
The general amendment procedure is commonly referred to as the 7/50 formula (section 38.(1)).
"The strategy of the bill's supporters is to offer this general amendment and then claim that all the senators that vote for it support the bill," explains Brian Bieron, eBay's senior director for federal government relations and global public policy, to CNET.
That question was whether there is a general First Amendment right to anonymity in signing ballot petitions of all sorts.
Under the new General Law Amendment (Sabotage) Act of 1962 and the Suppression of Communism Act, the defendants faced the threat of the death penalty.
The council approved a general plan amendment changing the property's land use from private institutional to multi-unit residential, with a limit of 100 units.
Measure JJJ applies to projects of 10 units or more where developers get a zoning change, general plan amendment or height-district change to build higher density projects than currently allowed, or to build homes where current zoning doesn't allow them.
The measure applies to projects with 10 units or more for which developers seek a zoning change, general plan amendment or height-district change — essentially to build more units than allowed or to build them where they currently can't be located, such as a parking lot or industrial neighborhood.
"These are some potential negative consequences, but you have to balance that against the general First Amendment argument that it's usually a good thing that we know what the government's up to, and that people should be able to speak about what they've been up to in their lives".
These are general soil amendments.
In 2009, Sessions, who is now the Attorney General, added an amendment to a military spending bill titled "No Miranda Warnings for Al Qaeda Terrorists".
To the relief of the TUC's general council, an amendment converting their promise of a big campaign into one of mass strike action was roundly defeated.
