Sentence examples for amendment to prevent from inspiring English sources

He wants a constitutional amendment to prevent gay marriage.

(Congress may have to pass an amendment to prevent a seventh season).

Mr. Weiner sponsored a budget amendment to prevent the institute from receiving the $46 million in the 2011 budget.

In June 2009, the Tories tabled an amendment to prevent a retrospective clause of the act being extended.

In fact, that record clearly shows that Congress intended the amendment to prevent precisely the abuses that the current House Republicans blithely condone.

They opposed summit meetings and limits on nuclear testing and favored a constitutional amendment to prevent the president from negotiating international treaties.

This week two leading conservative politicians — former Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and the cricket-star-turned-politician Imran Khan — have taken the same position my father held on the blasphemy laws: they want amendments to prevent misuse.

But he is also open to amendments to prevent some of the abuses opponents fear.

Irrigation using water with high SAR values may require soil amendments to prevent long-term damage to the soil, because the sodium in the water can displace the calcium and magnesium in the soil.

The new regulations need amendments to prevent unintended harm to hospitals that are following these steps and others to reduce readmissions.

Pence, who'd arranged for three anti-gay activists – Micah Clark, Eric Miller, and Curt Smith –  to stand behind him as he signed Indiana's bill, supported amendments to prevent the likes of Memories Pizza from demanding certification of heterosexuality before service.