Sentence examples for amendment trying from inspiring English sources

In clause 164 Lansley's bill strikes out this old cap: Shirley's Lib Dems voted against Labour's amendment trying to reinstate it.

But, at the 11th hour, there is a chance that the bill might be scuppered – because of a well-intentioned, but clumsily drafted, amendment trying to address a different problem to do with Leveson.

That amendment tried to throw out state and local laws forbidding discrimination against gays.

Because the amendment tries to govern social behavior, he said, "some details cannot be set forth very clearly".

Andrew Spainhour, Replacement's general counsel and a member of the steering committee that organized opposition to the amendment, tried to recruit other businesses.

Even as supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment tried to revive it, Mrs. Schlafly strove to make sure it stayed dead.

The country's wiliest politician, Hashemi Rafsanjani, who engineered that constitutional amendment, tried as President to open a commercial channel to the West in 1995, by offering the U.S. oil company Conoco a billion-dollar oil-and-gas development contract.

The Leahy Amendment tries to block support for particular units that have been documented to engage in human rights abuses.

Spearheaded by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, the effort quickly disintegrated into a partisan brawl as legislators piled amendments upon amendments, trying to fashion a bill to their liking.

Senator Birch Bayh (Kefauver's successor as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments) tried to get a version of the Kefauver amendment approved in Congress in 1964, after Kennedy's assassination.

And we need to take it up in open committee, offer amendments, try to build a consensus product and do it in a way that the public feels that we are really working towards their interest".