Sentence examples for amendment caught from inspiring English sources

Dr. Frist's amendment caught many lawmakers off guard.

Petra Falcón, executive director of Promise Arizona, who worked for 15 years along the southern border, said the Corker-Hoeven amendment "caught a lot of people off guard" and called it "overkill" because of the amount of resources it devotes to security.

Amendment One caught a lot of flak in 2012, the year North Carolina became the 32nd state to enact an outright ban on same-sex marriage.

(3) Amendment 80 species caught while test fishing, fishing under an experimental, exploratory, or scientific activity permit, or fishing under the Western Alaska CDQ Program are not considered Amendment 80 legal landings.

During eruptions of white-power excrescences, law enforcement officials were caught between First Amendment rights and pressure to crack down on widely detested groups.

That's the real lesson of the Irish result: that institutional, hard to communicate treaty amendments don't catch the public imagination; and that not having a "plan B" leaves a "no" vote free from risk and without scrutiny.

I just caught Cameron calling Labour's amendment to allow hospitals to raise the extra cash from private patients that hospitals by 5%.

Mr. Obama's condemnation of unfair auto loans was the first time he has weighed in with a formal White House statement on a specific amendment of the sweeping financial regulation, and it caught many dealers and industry executives off guard.

Tensions reached a peak in December, when an amendment raised the maximum fine for Uber drivers caught by authorities to T$25 million ($780,000) from an earlier range of NT$50,000-NT$50,000-NT$150,000 $1,600-$1,600-$4,800

My reaction: Tompkins is so caught up in maintaining his 2nd Amendment privilege that he lost sight of what really mattered here.

In 2011 some MEPs were caught negotiating payments for proposing legislative amendments on behalf of journalists posing as lobbyists.