Sentence examples for amendment the latter from inspiring English sources

The former was achieved only in 1868 with the adoption of the 14th Amendment; the latter became conceivable only in 1864, when Taney died and Lincoln replaced him with Chase.

In the final years of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era that followed, Congress repeatedly debated the rights of black former slaves freed by the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation and the 1865 Thirteenth Amendment, the latter of which had formally abolished slavery.

While great strides in protecting human rights were made in February the Burundian Senate passed draft legislation that abolished the death penalty and rejected a proposed amendment that would have outlawed homosexuality in April the lower house voted for the abolition of the death penalty and pushed for the passage of the latter amendment.

The latter amendment, from Rep. Steve Southerland (R-Fla)., became a sticking point.

The latter amendment would be an effective death sentence to the bill, which centers on a shift from letting individual colleges set their policies to establishing a unified rule about guns being allowed outside and inside university buildings, provided the carried has a concealed handgun license.

The latter amendment specified that, for some courses of studies, 75% of the study places should be reserved to applicants with a secondary education diploma acquired in Austria, while a further 20% should be reserved for other EU students, and the remaining 5% to third-countries students.

The latter amendments included limitations on federal powers to levy taxes and regulate trade.

The latter followed an amendment to the ethical approval that allowed us to collect additional data-fields.

Faced with the exponential development of the latter on the Internet, Amendment No 2 is essential.

The latter is protected under the first amendment.

"Your amendment as written to repeal the ethanol credit (unfortunately) does the latter".