Sentence examples for amendment gets from inspiring English sources

I suppose that the First Amendment gets in the way of me stopping it.

If this amendment gets put to a vote, this is where the rebellion will be strongest.

If this amendment gets accepted, the motion (if it gets approved) will be marginally less embarrasing to the leadership.

Senator Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, should make sure that the Gillibrand amendment gets one, and then he must rally Senate Democrats to pass it.

Politely ask the people who answer the phone to make certain that this amendment gets an "up or down vote" in the Senate.

Over the following days, the story got weirder: the LibDem amendment got amended, to add a figleaf of due process to the untenable proposal.

The Lee amendment got only a dozen.

Though proposed at the behest of organized labor, the amendment got the support of some of the most anti-union Republicans in the Senate.

But, lest we forget, Perry did put forth one transcendently good idea last time: a constitutional amendment getting rid of lifetime Supreme Court appointments.

Like a dot-com I.P.O., flag mania reached its peak in the House on Day One: 1995's version of the amendment got three hundred and twelve votes, with a hundred and twenty opposed.

"The response to her amendment got out of hand, to her surprise and mine as well," said Mr. Nickles, who said some Democrats were apparently itching to give Dr. Frist "a hard time".