Sentence examples for amendment up from inspiring English sources

"That's the time when we will have to put the amendment up," he said.

After they were finished, Leahy announced that he wouldn't put the amendment up for a vote, thus saving the bill.

Supporters fell four votes shy of the 60 they needed to bring the amendment up as part of a defense bill.

In the end, Leahy declined to put his amendment up for a vote at the committee level, thus saving the bill, but he recently said he wanted a vote on the amendment before the full Senate.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Gramm disputed that suggestion and said that Mr. Gramm left Washington this morning to inspect flood damage in Texas before Mr. Levin tried to bring his amendment up for debate.

Now they can allow Patrick Leahy to bring the amendment up on the floor, knowing it will fail.

"The issue of the Second Amendment came up and Fried is pretty much a Second Amendment absolutist.

The amendment is up for debate in the Senate, though it is seen as unlikely to pass.

But Grieve later said a compromise amendment drawn up in consultation with the government minister Robert Buckland had been watered down at the last minute.

A cross-party amendment drawn up by the SNP, which "declines to authorise military action in Syria", had won the support of 110 MPs by Tuesday night.

"I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up or anything else, if it'll save it, save this plan.