Sentence examples for amendment to stop from inspiring English sources

He was particularly proud of his successful amendment to stop funds for the bombing of Cambodia.

He co-sponsored an amendment to stop the administration from opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.

He battled for a constitutional amendment to stop the expansion of campaign spending, spurred by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010.

But groups working to improve domestic workers' rights were dismayed that an amendment to stop foreign domestic workers from being tied to one employer failed to become law.

But Mr. Biden also told his Democratic colleagues that he would support an amendment to stop abortion protesters from using bankruptcy protection to avoid damages they might otherwise have to pay for violating federal law in violent clinic protests.

So much so that there were more Tory MPs who signed an amendment to stop the flood of Romanians and Bulgarians coming into our country after 1 January than there were Romanians and Bulgarians who actually came into the country after 1 January.

We've had proposed amendments to stop flag burning, and to ban same-sex marriage, and that's when I was glad it was difficult to amend.

On the same day that Texas voted for more spending, voters in Maryland and Wisconsin passed constitutional amendments to stop politicians raiding highway funds for other purposes as they regularly do.State and local initiatives are becoming increasingly important because federal spending on transport is hamstrung.

Huckabee claimed he could invoke the Fifth and 14th Amendments to stop abortion in the country.

Last spring, after 21-year-old white nationalist Dylann Roof gunned down nine people at a black church in Charleston, Pitts proposed 54 amendments to stop a bill that would remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina's state house grounds.

Last spring, after 21-year-old white nationalist Dylann Roof gunned down nine people at a black church in Charleston last spring, Pitts proposed 54 amendments to stop a bill that would remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina's state house grounds.