Sentence examples for amendment referring from inspiring English sources

At one point the chief whip warned Thatcher that a repeat of a "Mates-style amendment" – referring to a wrecking amendment by the Tory MP Michael Mates – "would be difficult to stop this time" as marginal Conservative MPs feared for their seats in the face of increased bills.

One amendment refers to potential threats from "state or non-state actors".

The amendment refers to "a person who is working in a professional capacity as a journalist".

"The First Amendment refers to journalism," he said, "not what they do".

"The 28th Amendment" refers to a proposal to limit spending on federal election campaigns.

The amendment refers to the right of the people, rather than the individual person of the Fifth Amendment.

"The First Amendment refers both to freedom of speech and of the press," he said at one point.

A bill was filed for the reconveyance of land only, and an amendment referred to certain slaves.

It was not denied that they presented cases arising under the constitution; but, notwithstanding that, they were held to be prohibited by the amendment referred to.

The first clause of the amendment refers to the need for "a well regulated Militia" and the second states that "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".

An article on Sunday about renewed efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment referred imprecisely to the deadline established for state ratification when the measure was approved by Congress in 1972.