Sentence examples for amendment worth from inspiring English sources

In 2010, when Representative Barney Frank was negotiating the financial-regulation bill, he promised to include an amendment worth $1.5 billion to the Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group of thousands of small banks, in exchange for the group's support.

Dolan is fronting this crusade, and the degree of difficulty involved makes going out on a limb with a shaky "First Amendment" argument worth the gamble.

DuVernay said she felt the 13th Amendment was worth examining because "most people don't know about that loop-hole," she said.

That certainly doesn't mean all proposed amendments are worth ratifying, but I strongly believe it means each is worth truly considering before blindly checking the "No" box across an entire section of the ballot!

Perhaps as a nation of sensible citizens, we can all begin to look at gun violence in the same way--that our strict adherence to a specific interpretation of the second amendment isn't worth the cost.

I must admit that the subtlety of those amendments hardly seemed worth the effort.

Before the amendment, tax credits were worth up to 50% of face value in large, high-yielding companies, but subsequently it is difficult to detect any value at all.

Speculation had previously been that it would go for between $15 billion and $20 billion, and a third-party valuation analysis that Zynga had provided in a recent filing amendment indicated it was worth $14.05 billion.

violated the First Amendment probably will be worth only nominal damages.

While protecting the rights of only a small sliver of the union members -- Grigsby's office said she "would much rather maintain employee rights for all" -- the amendment could, nevertheless, be worth tens of millions of dollars for the state.

The line-item veto by itself will not cure federal overspending or have much impact on total spending, which is why it is not worth a constitutional amendment.