Sentence examples for amendment the way from inspiring English sources

One committee member asked if McGwire was pleading the Fifth Amendment, the way mobsters used to do.

Clemens does not want to get invited to a Congressional hearing this month and plead some baseball version of the Fifth Amendment, the way Mark McGwire did on that pathetic day in March 2005, when he kept mumbling that the past was the past.

Kinsley quoted his then-colleague Mickey Kaus on the New Republic magazine as saying "that if liberals interpreted the Second Amendment the way they interpret the rest of the Bill of Rights, there would be law professors arguing that gun ownership is mandatory".

The Twenty-seventh Amendment, by the way, pretty clearly means that the SignOn.org proposal is unconstitutional.

Representative Michael A. Costello, a Democrat from Newburyport and a strong opponent of the amendment, said: "The way I looked at it was that we would kill it with a handgun or a hand grenade.

If passed this week, the amendment clears the way for a pending bill that would require some kind of identification in order to prove citizenship and to register to vote.

The market rent-only option is against both UK government policy and competition law here and in the EU, and we would expect the pub industry to appeal this amendment all the way through the courts.

A third amendment opens the way for serving editors to have a greater role on the committee that establishes the code of practice, removing the quotas limiting their membership to just a third, alongside independent members and other journalists.

"Having been enlightened by my colleagues in Europe, we are introducing an amendment to the way the appeal committees are formed which ensures their independence, introducing two judges who are evidently independent," Mouzalas said in a speech to parliament.

The House of Lords voted by 390 to 148 to reject the amendment, clearing the way for the bill to have a second reading.

This was actually their purpose in framing the Eighth Amendment in the way that they did, as expressing this abstract principle as opposed to a more detailed provision listing the specific kinds of concrete practices they wished to forbid, that is, elaborating their concrete understanding of 'cruel and unusual punishment'.