Sentence examples for amendment the threshold from inspiring English sources

Put people in the Senate who will make gun rights and the Second Amendment the threshold question for whether a nominee is qualified.

While the number of jurors has been reduced from 12 (which was the common-law norm) to 6, and while parties may waive their right to trial by jury in favour of a direct verdict, other distinguishing characteristics of the common-law tradition (such as the unanimous verdict requirement) and the amendment (the financial threshold) remain intact.

In the Lords, Lord Ashley succeeded with an amendment that raised the threshold for entitlement for incapacity benefit.

In particular, the reforms must include a constitutional amendment which decreases the threshold for parliamentary election from the present requirement necessitating ten percent of the popular vote.

Labor had proposed a slew of other amendments, including lowering the threshold for declaration of political donations, exempting volunteers from increased penalties and giving the Australian Securities and Investments Commission oversight of unions, instead of a new registered organisations commission.

It is mainly regarding two points that I think the amendments we have tabled may be of great benefit: environmental labelling, covered by Amendment No 48; and the threshold value for biodegradable substances, covered by Amendment No 55.

"In addition to today's amendment, countries last week crossed the threshold for the Paris Agreement to enter into force and reached a deal to constrain international aviation emissions," he said in a statement.

For Post, the only state interest in campaign-finance regulation that is both compatible with the First Amendment and rises above the threshold to interfere with it, because its claims are prior, is electoral integrity: "Electoral integrity is a compelling government interest because without it Americans have no reason to exercise the communicative rights guaranteed by the First Amendment".

Bower said: "My suggestion is that you must include in the bill a presumption of the interests of publication, as in the First Amendment in America, and that the threshold for someone like a public figure — whether Richard Desmond, an oligarch, or anyone — is to prove that the author or publishers are motivated by malice.

An amendment that would have seen the threshold of support lowered to 70percentt failed, as expected, to gain enough support with lawmakers in a June vote.

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