Sentence examples for amended in a from inspiring English sources

The constitution, amended in a day in July to allow for direct presidential elections, is unclear on the point.

What is certain is that 74% of the legislation that governs the UK's environment is being removed or amended in a manner so sweeping and chaotic that scrutiny is difficult.

The plan was then amended in a way that would allow companies to claim one year of losses, and the newest change would restore the two-year offset in many cases.

The industrial emissions directive rules were originally proposed in June 2013 and could still be amended in a formal proposal which the commission hopes to have ready by the end of the month.

Under the English Inheritance (Family Provision) Act of 1938, as amended in a series of enactments, the court, if it found the decedent had failed to make reasonable financial provision for the applicant, was empowered to order maintenance from the estate to the surviving spouse, an unmarried daughter, a minor son, any incapacitated child, or an unmarried former spouse of the decedent.

Some legal experts said the BP debacle had created an opening to modernize the country's maritime laws, which often do not make legal or common sense because they have evolved by being amended in a piecemeal fashion over decades or centuries.

More recently, as African governance has generally improved, constitutions have been written and amended in an effort to provide for devolved powers around the edges while allowing for a firm hand at the centre.The right of all peoples to self-determination generally holds good across the globe.

Mr. Duncan's will, which is on file at the Harris County Probate Court in Houston, was written in 2006 and amended in 2008, a time when most estate planners assumed that Congress would not allow the tax to lapse.

The press release states that Impress's articles of association will include a "sunset clause", requiring it – as a last resort – to suspend operations should the royal charter framework be "amended in such a way as to constrain press freedom".

But the very un-sexy regulations also ban "material judged to be obscene" under the Obscene Publications Act. Britain's obscenity laws were first drafted in 1857 — and have not been amended in half a century.

Besides norms, structures and values in society, the respective laws as well as attitudes and structures should be changed and amended in such a way that abusers and the abuse are clearly confronted everywhere.