Sentence examples for amendment left from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "amendment left" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a remaining or outstanding amendment, but without context, it is ambiguous.
Example: "The committee discussed the proposed changes, but there is still one amendment left to consider before the vote."
Alternatives: "remaining amendment" or "outstanding amendment".

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The amendment left only one reference to commerce in § 1125(a), which was the "uses in commerce" language.

The amendment left the government facing the prospect of scuttling its own legislation to give the tax office greater powers to stop global companies using "artificial or contrived arrangements" to avoid tax obligations.

The only amendment left to vote on would have given Britain the right to terminate the Northern Ireland backstop agreement without the consent of the European Union — a condition that Brussels considers unacceptable.

The defeat of the amendment left McGovern embittered and somewhat more radicalized.

Today's Supreme Court decision on the millionaire's amendment left the core of the McCain-Feingold law intact, and that's good news for everyone who cares about stamping out corruption in government.

Douglas Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University and editor of the Marijuana Law, Policy and Reform blog, said that although he believes prosecutions such as the one of Lynch are out of sync with the broad acceptance in the U.S. of medical marijuana, the wording of the amendment left its intent "pregnant with uncertainty".

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In the end Mr. Leahy withheld his amendment, leaving open the option of introducing it later.

The 10th Amendment leaves education to the states, and Congress has rarely dictated what the nation's schools must teach.

But the amendment leaves open the door for insurers to potentially charge them more — perhaps a lot more.

Some scholars have suggested that the debt limit may violate the 14th amendment, leaving the president free to ignore it come August 2nd.

Consequently, the construction of § 3486 here urged would limit its protection to that already afforded by the Fifth Amendment, leaving the Section with no effect whatever.

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