Sentence examples for amendment to strengthen from inspiring English sources

Senator Charles Schumer of New York offered the amendment to strengthen the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

Initial drafts of the bill merely proposed that the commissioner "may have regard to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)" but the Lords passed an amendment to strengthen the bill amid children's rights campaigners' complaints that the bill failed to promote children's rights.

Portman proposed an amendment to strengthen the bill's requirements on E-Verify.

Last week, I joined two of my women colleagues to announce that we will introduce an amendment to strengthen these already historic reforms.

Sens. Merkley and Levin's amendment to strengthen Volcker Rule provisions in the bill would ban this type of conflict of interest trading and crack down on these firms that are "betting against America".

Sens. Cantwell and McCain's approach is to fully re-institute depression era Glass-Steagall rules and Sens. Merkley and Levin will offer an amendment to strengthen the Volcker Rule provisions in the bill to crack down on proprietary trading.

Achieving that requires passing amendments to strengthen the bill's weak areas and defeating efforts to weaken its strong parts.

But many found amendments to strengthen the bill — a number of them offered by Senators Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin and Barack Obama of Illinois, both Democrats — politically difficult to oppose.

But Mr. Hudson's group maintains that the legislation does not go far enough, and has proposed 29 amendments to strengthen the measure.

These provisions reflect the general goal of the 1972 amendments to strengthen existing labeling requirements and insure that these requirements were followed in practice.

Though he said he and Reed would try to see whether "we can agree on another package of amendments to strengthen this legislation even further," it is unlikely that package will include amendments sure to inspire heated debate.