Sentence examples for amendment in reference to from inspiring English sources

The general duty clause — known as the "Bhopal amendment" in reference to the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in India — requires facilities to take steps to prevent accidental releases of dangerous chemicals and to "minimize" the consequences of such a release.

In New Zealand, it's particularly heard in reference to an amendment to the Crimes Act which came into effect in 2007.

In reference to his amendment, Djanogly said: "There are various things we are looking at in the margins coming out of the Lords debate.

For example, in reference to the Texas prison system, Estelle v. Gamble determined that "deliberate indifference" to the healthcare needs of inmates constituted a violation of 8th Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

A: In reference to running time, no.

In reference to its carnivorous diet.

Rather, Mr. Lewis said in a public interview at Harvard in 2006, the amendment's reference to "the press" was merely to the products of printing presses — printed words as opposed to spoken ones.

In an opinion by Antonin Scalia, writing for a five-Justice majority, the Court reversed decades of precedent and asserted that the Second Amendment guaranteed an individual the right to possess firearms (discounting the amendment's reference to "a well regulated militia").

He claimed that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment's reference to takings of "life", and to "capital" crimes, meant approval of the death penalty was implicit in the Bill of Rights.

In Ex parte Virginia,, the Supreme Court found that the prohibitions of the Fourteenth Amendment "have reference to actions of the political body denominated by a State, by whatever instruments or in whatever modes that action may be taken.

… Engaging in homosexual sodomy is not protected" by the 14th Amendment and its reference to liberty, he wrote.