Sentence examples for amendment like that from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "amendment like that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific type of amendment or change, often in a legal or formal context.
Example: "I don't think the committee will approve an amendment like that during the meeting."
Alternatives: "such an amendment" or "a change like that".

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If an amendment like that gets stuck on the bill in the Senate, Schumer acknowledged, "the bad it would do would equalize the good".

Another committed backbench campaigner pointed out that an amendment like that tabled by Yvette Cooper and Nick Boles last time, which would have handed MPs the power to extend article 50, would not succeed without some Conservative MPs switching sides – and that may not happen until her deal has been defeated again in a second "meaningful vote".

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"The investors would not like that amendment to be passed, because they don't want the government to get priority to buy into a project," Ms. Hardin added.

Several analysts said Mr. Abe might start with more technical amendments, like one that would change the votes needed to amend the Constitution.

Missing also are efforts to support court-ordered outpatient treatment alternatives to incarceration, and fixes to the limited mental health care access for Medicare and Medicaid patients (though there's still hope to expand the influence of the legislation through amendments like one that would remove a Medicaid restriction to certain mental health facilities).

They attached it to a larger gun-related measure — one actually supported by the N.R.A., at least before amendments like the ban were added — but that bill died, and after that there just wasn't much appetite for trying to get it passed anew.

The idea would be to add a little First Amendment kick to our Second Amendment campaign — first they get rid of God, then they get rid of guns, or something like that.

The Second Amendment fundamentalism that makes incidents like the Martin shooting possible also makes ones like Newtown inevitable.

Now it looks like that amendment is going to be passed: meaning that being caught with a bottle of Jungle Juice in your pocket will probably carry the similar, if not exact same penalty as being caught with a satty of caps.

It was an amendment that, like Hochul herself, embodied the Democratic argument that the super rich and corporations should give up some of their tax breaks before the government could cut things like programs for children and the elderly.

There was a noble attempt by California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo to include in this bill an amendment that, like the FCC proposal, called for stations to post online who's putting up the big bucks for political ads.

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