Sentence examples for amendment refers from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Although the 1906 amendment referred to the Act of February 25 , 1903 along with other immunity statutes, in limiting immunity to persons testifying under oath and in response to subpoena, Senator Knox was correct in suggesting that the Amendment would have little, if any, application to judicial testimony which is commonly sworn and subpoenaed.