Sentence examples for amendment much from inspiring English sources

This summer, the Senate did not even support delaying the Durbin Amendment, much less repealing it.

Despite the failure from 1896 to 1910 of a single new state to ratify a state suffrage amendment, much of the organizational groundwork had been laid.

At the time, the decision was most remarked upon for its assertion that corporations possessed a right to freedom of speech, under the First Amendment, much as individuals do.

Here's the problem: Credit rating companies have long contended that their conclusions are protected by the First Amendment, much as if their ratings were as irrelevant to the markets as, say, your average financial column.

"It's just a few pages of general ruminations about the Fourth Amendment, much of it incomplete and some of it simply incorrect," Orin S. Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University who believes the administration's legal justifications for the program are weak, said of Judge Taylor's Fourth Amendment analysis on a Web log called the Volokh Conspiracy.

Such scholars remind us that, because of the First Amendment, much legislation, and most Supreme Court decisions (the Smith case an obvious exception), American citizens experience "the free exercise of religion" in a scope unimaginable in most places.

After all, Greenwald argues, "DeWine's FISA amendment was much, much less draconian than what the administration was already secretly doing (i.e., lowering the evidentiary standard but (i) eliminating judicial oversight, and (ii) applying these changes not just to non-U.S.

Much recent academic writing about the First Amendment, and much of the jurisprudence about it, has "balanced" speech rights against other social goods and has valued speech rights primarily as instrumental for other social goods.

The amendment, like much from the House, was based on demagoguery.

2.46pm BST Cameron says the Labour amendment has "much to commend it".

As you can see for yourself if you read the motion and the amendment, not much.