Sentence examples for amendment strictly from inspiring English sources

The Hyde Amendment strictly prevents this funding from covering abortions, except in the case of rape, incest or threats to the health of the mother.

But the Sixth Amendment strictly prohibits the use of government-directed informants to question defendants who have already been charged, as Dekraai had been.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican whip, said that Democrats were not limiting their amendments strictly to the overtime issue and that the debate could continue to drag on.

Tom Coburn's Viagra amendment was strictly intended to set up Democrats for brutal T.V. ads in the fall.

In the early 1980s, when he was an Illinois state legislator, Democrats passed an amendment that strictly regulated the trucking industry.

In 2005, Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican, drew the wrath of the party's ideological core by supporting a state referendum creating a timeout for a Taxpayers' Bill of Rights, a state constitutional amendment that strictly controls taxation and spending.

After the Civil War, Reconstruction-era statutes and constitutional amendments -- particularly the 14th Amendment -- strictly limited the ability of legislators to restrict the rights of the recently freed African Americans.

To protect themselves from the banks' wrath for doing so, politicians engineered a constitutional amendment that strictly constrained political contributions from the wealthy.

He opposes gay marriage, but he also opposes a federal constitutional amendment that would define marriage strictly as the union of a man and a woman.

Concluding that there was no such federal right, Miller strictly limited the amendment's guarantees of "due process of law" and "equal protection of the laws," as well as "privileges and immunities of citizens".

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment requires that government be strictly neutral when it comes to religion.