Sentence examples for amendment by which from inspiring English sources

But we deal with an aspect of a fair trial which is implicit in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by which the States are bound.

A major check on spending since 1941 has been Oklahoma's "budget-balancing" amendment, by which the legislature is forbidden to appropriate more money than in the previous year plus estimated additional revenues.

Yet even looking through his eyes, one finds it hard to imagine that the post-Civil War constitutional amendments by which black citizenship rights were advanced could ever have been ratified if the slave states had remained in the Union.

He recommended the acceptance of amendments by which further taxation of large incomes and big war profits would be effected, which would bring the total amount of the bill to about $3,500,000,000.

In the wake of these events, International brought suit in this court to enjoin the sale of Inc. to the Barclays and to invalidate the bylaw amendments by which Inc. proposed to paralyze the International board.

A proposed amendment by Egypt — which would have allowed states to avoid implementing the declaration if it clashed with national laws or religious or cultural values — failed.

Atha's white paper motion asking for costs to be waived was defeated by a non-commital amendment by Brett which noted the request over costs and outlined support for the principle of community asset transfer.

According to Robert Richards, co-director of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment, the standards by which courts judge threats to be threatening are often vague and sometimes contradict each other.

If we try the Constitution by its last relation, to the authority by which amendments are to be made, we find it neither wholly national, nor wholly federal.

This undesirable situation was eventually remedied by amendments of the statutes, by which the qualifications of candidates for membership were defined and which also prescribed the conditions under which non-members may be admitted to the meetings.

One amendment by Mr. McCain, which was blocked, would require publicly traded companies to include the cost of employee stock option grants as an expense on their income statements.