Sentence examples for amendment to maintain from inspiring English sources

GRASSLEY 27, Implementing a one-year filing deadline for asylum cases — Tabled Mr. Grassley introduced an amendment to "maintain the integrity of the asylum process," which would have put in place a one-year filing deadline for asylum cases — meaning that immigrants seeking asylum would have one year after arriving in the country to file their petition.

Although most MEPs would prefer to be based just in Brussels, at John Major's 1992 Edinburgh summit, France engineered a treaty amendment to maintain Parliament's plenary seat permanently at Strasbourg.

"During [that] act's passage through parliament last year, the government acknowledged that 'trafficking is a heinous, cynical crime' and made specific amendments to maintain legal aid for compensation and immigration matters regarding trafficking victims, given their 'particular vulnerabilities'.

Most leafy vegetables return small amount of crop residue to soil, thus application of compost and other organic amendments help to maintain soil organic levels (Carl and Bierman 2005; Oworu and Dada 2009; Ojo et al. 2014).

Yet even after being embarrassed publicly for violating a student's First Amendment rights, VSU decided to maintain its brazenly unconstitutional free speech policy.

Certain amendments may be required to maintain soils under high SARs.

Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn)., who co-sponsored the underlying bill with Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla)., said he warned GOP leadership not to bring up the Southerland and Goodlatte amendments if they wanted to maintain Democratic support for the bill.

An amendment to require all states to maintain a database of permits, and make it accessible to law enforcement nationwide, failed, 139 to 284.

He also was a proponent of the flat tax and a longtime champion of a constitutional amendment requiring the federal government to maintain a balanced budget.

Mr. Bell said yesterday that the lawsuit was part of a government effort to "suppress my First Amendment free-speech rights" and to maintain a government scheme to extract taxes illegally.

"Crucially the amendment will provide sufficient funds to maintain play centres, youth centres, day centres and the Cardiff Alcohol and Drug Team Counselling Service until sustainable alternative delivery mechanisms are in place and operating satisfactorily".