Sentence examples for amendment along from inspiring English sources

Murphy, calculating that he could appease conservatives when the bill came up for final consideration, voted no on the amendment, along with all but one of his Democratic colleagues.

"Last fall," he said, "I sponsored an amendment along with Senator Schumer on the supplemental appropriations bill to increase the Army by 10,000, just as sort of an opening salvo.

On Thursday, the question of whether the amendment will ultimately pass exists because in all three votes some lawmakers cast strategic votes intended to help move the amendment along to its final stage.

Mr. Flake voted for the tough border security bill in the House, although he has long favored a guest worker program and was stymied in his efforts to offer an amendment along those lines.

Burnham will also deliver a letter to Clegg's constituency office making his offer that Labour peers would vote for an amendment along the lines of that proposed last week by Lib Dem peer and stalwart critic of the health bill Williams, to drop part three of the bill entirely.

Some 73 Lib Dem peers voted against the amendment, along with 170 Conservatives.

But all legislative amendments along these lines have failed.

If amendments along these lines are adopted transition will be smoother, less expensive and less controversial.

As the green paper points out, the existing company law dates back to Victorian times, despite several reviews and amendments along the way.

On February 28 , 2006 Al Haramain filed suit against the Bush Administration in Oregon federal court, claiming that the government had violated the First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendments, along with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which makes it illegal for the government to use wiretaps in the U.S. without a warrant.

The First Amendment, which, along with its siblings Second through Tenth, was among the first business of Congress under the new Constitution, rejected a national religious establishment.