Sentence examples for amendment rejected from inspiring English sources

Senator Joe Manchin, the co-sponsor of the amendment, rejected criticism that such a deal would be incremental.

The amendment rejected by the Senate on Sunday, proposed by Senator Jim Risch, Republican of Idaho, would have inserted language into the preamble about the importance of tactical weapons.

The speaker, who followed Mr. Obama on TV with about five minutes of hoary talking points clearly written before the president spoke, is insisting on a plan that raises the debt ceiling until early next year and demands another vote on a balanced-budget amendment, rejected by the Senate last week.

The amendment rejected on June 25 proposed lowering the threshold to 70pc, which would check or limit military power.

An amendment rejecting article 13, tabled by senators from the Ecology party, was thrown out.

But she has now been forced into a partial retreat, and the party has instead tabled an amendment rejecting the bill.

On Monday night, 48 Labour MPs, nearly a fifth of the parliamentary party, defied a three-line whip that ordered them to back an amendment rejecting the bill, but then to abstain on the bill's second reading.

AMs later backed a Plaid Cymru amendment rejecting restrictions which critics say limit the Welsh government's ability to vary income tax rates.

The Democratic Green party, the main opposition group in Rwanda – which is tiny and has no seats in parliament – had its attempt to block the constitutional amendments rejected in the courts.

He is free, of course, to argue for that view -- but it is one that the Founders rejected, the Framers of the Reconstruction Amendments rejected, and the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected, and it is fundamentally incompatible with Americans' sense of what our noble experiment is all about.

Former Conservative cabinet ministers from the Thatcher era, including Lord Tebbit, have put down critical amendments rejecting such cuts in medical negligence cases.