The phrase "a amendment" is not correct in written English.
The correct article to use is "an" because "amendment" begins with a vowel sound.
Example: "The proposed amendment to the constitution was debated in the Senate."
Alternatives: "an amendment" or "a revision".
A: Amendment 782 will be applied on a case-by-case basis, pursuant to the procedure set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c).
A: Amendment 782 will go into effect on November 1, 2014, unless Congress uses its rarely-invoked power to override the Commission's action.
Approval for use in this study was obtained from the Joint UCL/UCLH Committees on the Ethics of Human Research Committeee A) (Amendment 4, 31 June 2009).
POSTCARD FROM OREGON about Ballot Measure 9, a amendment to the state constitution which would make homosexuality "abnormal, wrong, unnatural, and perverse...to be discouraged and….
Police officers would no longer be able to access journalists' phone records to identify their sources without permission from a judge under a amendment proposed to the serious crime bill tabled on Thursday.
6. Prescription Drugs: Vote on a amendment to a spending bill for the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services that would lower drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries.
In fact, requesting a split vote on an amendment is in effect tabling a new amendment, i.e. tabling an amendment on an amendment.
One cannot metaphorically refer to an amendment as an amendment.
"It's a situation where the regulation needs an amendment".
Amendment 80 mackerel vessel means an Amendment 80 vessel that is not an Amendment 80 non-mackerel vessel.
In theory, an amendment to the Constitution (more precisely, an amendment to the First Amendment) could overrule those decisions.
