Sentence examples for amendment only if from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Bush said he would support an amendment only "if necessary" to preserve traditional marriage.

I adhere to my view that "a method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment only if it is deliberately designed to inflict pain". Baze v. Rees, 553 U. S. 35, 94 20088) (opinion concurring in judgment); ante, at 14.

v. Bolden, 446 U.S. 55, 62 (1980) (plurality opinion) ("[A]ction by a State that is racially neutral on its face violates the Fifteenth Amendment only if motivated by a discriminatory purpose".).

In Knights’s view, apparently shared by the Court of Appeals, a warrantless search of a probationer satisfies the Fourth Amendment only if it is just like the search at issue in Griffin — i.e., a “special needs” search conducted by a probation officer monitoring whether the probationer is complying with probation restrictions.

In Baze v. Rees, 553 U. S. 35, a plurality of this Court concluded that a State's refusal to alter its execution protocol could violate the Eighth Amendment only if an inmate first identified a "feasible, readily implemented" alternative procedure that would "significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe pain". Id., at 52.

Knights argues that a warrantless search of a probationer satisfies the Fourth Amendment only if it is just like the search at issue in Griffin v. Wisconsin, 483 U. S. 868, i.e., a “special needs” search conducted by a probation officer monitoring whether the probationer is complying with probation restrictions.

Senator McConnell can block votes on such amendments only if he also curtails Republican amendments.

Feinstein insisted that one could support their amendments only if "you believe that no one is going to attack us".

If the amendment only applied to access to the journalist's phone records this practice may still be permissible without a warrant, which would provide a fairly substantial loophole for government agencies.

If the government just carries on regardless, their amendment only adds a layer of needless financial chaos to a Hard Brexit.

The amendment only failed by twelve votes.