The phrase "amendment as if" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to suggest a hypothetical situation regarding an amendment, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "The proposal was considered an amendment as if it were a new law, but it faced significant opposition."
Alternatives: "modification as though" or "revision as if".
He is first made more saintly by the focus on the 13th Amendment, as if abolition had been his primary goal.
"I'm not gonna pick somebody who's, you know, obviously not a respecter of the Second Amendment" — as if, again, this were the case with Garland.
It is time for opponents of gun control to stop mindlessly shouting "The Second Amendment!!" as if that ends the discussion.
"People kind of got caught up in the moment," says Corker of the 64 yes votes on the Durbin amendment, as if voting to restrict swipe fees was like smoking pot in the '70s.
But they're judicial activists bent on overturning 75 years of jurisprudence by resurrecting states' rights, treating the 2nd Amendment as if America still relied on local militias, narrowing the Commerce Clause, and calling money speech and corporations people.
"If we become the party that cares about the Sixth Amendment as much as we do the Second Amendment, we're going to dominate".
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Here's the problem: Credit rating companies have long contended that their conclusions are protected by the First Amendment, much as if their ratings were as irrelevant to the markets as, say, your average financial column.
The first two of these — on the size of the House and Congressional pay — didn't pass muster in the states, and so the third recommended amendment became, as if by fate, our famous First.
But the $8 billion amendment appears as if it was enough to ultimately swing five members' votes.
A spokesman in Specter's office says the senator--who is chairman of the subcommittee overseeing funds for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS --sees an amendment as a fall-back option if no stem cell vote is HHS --seese tHHS --sees
