Sentence examples for amendment to put from inspiring English sources

Before the final vote, senators rejected an amendment to put the matter before voters in a referendum.

The Venice Commission was even less amused when the Hungarian government used the Fourth Amendment to put this power to move cases into the constitution itself.

As the Senate neared a final vote, Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, withdrew an amendment to put a similar exemption for auto dealers into the Senate bill.

In a daylong debate, Democrats argued for federal contributions for school modernization, retraining teachers and increased financing of Title I. Senator Paul Wellstone, Democrat of Minnesota, offered an amendment to put off the testing requirements until the federal government supplied $15 billion for Title I -- an amount it only reaches after several years, under today's bill.

"It's our view that it will take a constitutional amendment to put our democracy back on track".

WASHINGTON -- An amendment to put $30 billion towards border security, including 20,000 more agents along the border, is not enough to convince Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky). to support the bill.

Amendments to put a prohibition against interracial marriage in the Constitution were introduced at least three times from 1871 to 1928 but never reached a vote in Congress, according to the Senate Historical Office.

Corker ultimately decides which amendments to put up for a committee vote.

I noticed the paper said that candidates have the First Amendment rights to put their signs out there.

He had no "greater First Amendment right to put a man's life in danger by publishing stolen and sealed confidential documents than if he walked into a crowded theater and shouted fire," she said.

"While everyone in America has a First Amendment right to put forth any work, no matter how obnoxious some people may find it, that does not entail the automatic right to use public property to perpetuate harmful stereotypes".