Sentence examples for amendment backing from inspiring English sources

Last month, 17 Democratic senators signed on to an amendment backing construction of the pipeline.

MPs overturned a Lords amendment backing phase two, by 301 votes to 289.

The prime minister wants a real-terms freeze in spending but 32 Tory MPs have signed an amendment backing a cut.

The proposed platform was pro-silver; Senator Hill had offered an amendment backing the gold standard, which had been defeated by committee vote.

Last year Indiana failed to pass an amendment backed by Pence and conservatives that sought to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

An amendment, backed by meatpackers, to restore funding to food inspectors.

He also said he opposed a constitutional amendment backed by President Bush that would ban them.

The proposed constitutional amendment, backed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and approved twice by the Legislature, is the product of years of debate and big spending in Albany.

On gay rights, Mr. McCain voted against a proposed constitutional amendment backed by Mr. Bush banning same-sex marriage, saying that it should be up to the states.

3.52pm: Over in the upper house Lord Naren Patel, former head of the National Patient Safety Agency, is putting forward an amendment backed by Thatcher's former Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay.

In the debate leading up to the vote in the Senate, lawmakers from the storm-tossed region faced one major hurdle: an amendment backed by fiscal conservatives that proposed cuts in other programs to pay for the storm aid.