Sentence examples for Tempting amendment from inspiring English sources

Does it have the votes to fight off every tempting amendment anyone offers?

For partisans on the left and the right, it's tempting to see constitutional amendments as shortcuts to political gain.

And unlike the search-and-seizure context where the need to obtain valuable evidence may tempt authorities to transgress Fourth Amendment limitations police win little, if any, practical advantage from violating Article 36.

When Cotton offered his amendment, I was tempted to say, "Now wait just a cotton-pickin' minute".

In an effort to hold on to Republicans who might be tempted to vote for the Holt/Shays amendment, the administration has ordered up another "study" of the issue in an effort to show that snowmobiles are environmentally benign.

As the U.S. Supreme Court imposes federalism-based limits on congressional power under the Commerce Clause and Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress may be tempted to turn to the conditional spending power in order to achieve goals that it cannot realize directly.

If I didn't value the First Amendment so dearly, I'd be tempted to propose a law keeping irony out of the hands of the clueless.

Last week there was clearly hope that some Labour members representing strongly pro-leave areas could be tempted into the "yes" division, with the government accepting an amendment from three of them which gave further guarantees on employment rights after Brexit.

The bigger danger, according to Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment expert at UCLA School of Law, is that Facebook would be tempted to over-censor and stymie critical public discourse.

Anyone with an ounce of decency should be tempted to ban animal-abuse videos, but anyone with an appreciation for the First Amendment understands why we cannot.

Given that this proposed amendment did not make it into the final draft, one might be tempted to argue that the declaration of withdrawal was not intended to be revocable.