Sentence examples for amendment that gives from inspiring English sources

"The platform committee instead approved draft language Tuesday, calling for a 'Human Life Amendment' that gives legal protection to the unborn".

In Missouri, voters in 2012 approved a constitutional amendment that gives residents the right to "pray and acknowledge God voluntarily in their schools," and in Virginia this year, State Senator Bill Stanley has introduced a similar amendment.

The increasingly influential national assembly approved a constitutional amendment that gives it the power to hold no-confidence votes and to dismiss government leaders, including the president and prime minsiter.

Johnson also won approval for an amendment that gives NSF more leeway in monitoring the projected cost of the project.

In the same case, Justice Thomas thought the entire law should be declared unconstitutional because it was an over-extension of federal power, ignoring the 15th Amendment that gives Congress the full power to legislate against discriminatory practices against voting on the basis of race.

In an interpretation of the First Amendment that gives new meaning to the term "Orwellian," Rep. Smith says that suggesting that Exxon Mobil might have been lying to the public and its shareholders is an attack on the corporation's right to free speech.

But the Cuban constitution contained an amendment that gave the United States the right to intervene in instances of political turmoil.

In 1998, Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment that gave counties the right to close the loophole, and seven have exercised that option.

Egypt's president, Mohamed Morsi, has ordered Egypt's two top generals to retire and revoked a military-declared constitutional amendment that gave them wide powers.

After the passage of the 19th Amendment that gave women the vote, the National League of Women Voters was created in 1920 to follow up on the success of the suffrage campaign, and Park was chosen president of the new group and chairman of its legislative committee.

In December, she won congressional approval of an amendment that gave the executive more say in the allocation of the federal budget.