Sentence examples for amendment under which from inspiring English sources

The 2002 constitutional amendment under which Mr. Musharraf won the right as president to appoint the chiefs of the military services would also be overturned, Mr. Ali said.

President Obama can significantly reduce the harm by directing the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development to reject a longstanding misinterpretation of the amendment under which aid cannot be used to help women whose lives are endangered or in cases of rape or incest.

While its subject was the Family and Medical Leave Act, the decision's analytical core was an interpretation of Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, under which Congress "shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation" the amendment's substantive guarantees of equal protection and due process.

Issue 3, a proposed Ohio constitutional amendment under which recreational marijuana would be legalized, was soundly rejected by voters.

The aide added that member pay would not be changed due to concerns over violating the 27th Amendment, under which "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened".

There was a simple wooden cross flanked by the words of the First and Second Amendments under which were donation baskets in the form of empty.50 caliber ammunition cans.

The election was a catalyst for the adoption of the Twelfth Amendment (1804), under which electors would cast separate ballots for president and vice president.

The tobacco industry and some of its supporters had argued that it was time for the court to raise commercial speech from its current second-tier status to the level of full First Amendment protection under which any regulation has to be supported by a "compelling" government interest.

It constitutes only a small part of the snooping enabled by section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, under which the NSA is thought to squirrel away around 250m communications from or about foreigners each year.

He said his votes opposing action against cop-killer bullets and plastic guns that could pass metal detectors were caused by the no-amendment procedure under which they were considered.

The president's proposed measures focused on reforming Section 215 of the Patriot Act and Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, under which the NSA's surveillance programs are considered lawful.