Sentence examples for amendment reduces the from inspiring English sources

A second amendment reduces the maximum sentence for the crime from 14 to five years.

An amendment reducing the number of guest-worker visas from 325,000 a year to 200,000 passed handily, as did another promising 370 miles of fence along the border.

In January 2008 the Kuomintang (KMT), or Nationalist Party, and its allies won 86 seats in Taiwan's first legislative elections after a constitutional amendment reduced the number of seats from 225 to 113 and introduced single-seat districts.

As health secretary in 2008, Alan Johnson opposed Nadine Dorries's proposed amendment (reducing the abortion limit) to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, but this did not stop her from making it.More significant than Mr Hunt's personal opinion is the composition of the House of Commons.

This amendment reduced the qualifications or circumstances which can affect the auditor's opinion to include only scope limitations and non-compliance with accounting principles and criteria.

A recent U.S. law (the Durbin Amendment) reduced the cost of some debit card transactions.

The results revealed that the biochar amendment reduced the number of galls per g of root and the number of nematodes per g of root at all of the tested concentrations (Fig.  2a).

The addition of P-rich soil amendments reduces the mobility of various trace elements and corresponding accumulation in plant tissue (Cao et al. 2002; Brown et al. 2004, 2005; Kumpiene et al. 2008; Cao et al. 2009).

The amendments reduced the disparity between sentences for crack and powder cocaine.

TBILISI, Georgia — The Georgian Parliament gave final approval on Friday to constitutional amendments reducing the powers of the president and strengthening the role of the prime minister after presidential elections in 2013.

Amendments reduced the concentrations of 0.01 mol L−1 CaCl2-extractable Cd, Cu and Zn, especially in the SL-amended soil.