Sentence examples for amendments advanced from inspiring English sources

In a harrowing day and night of fending off amendments advanced by the Republican leadership in conjunction with the White House, the National Rifle Association, various special-interest groups and some unions, lawmakers struggled their way through the complexities and cast vote after vote to clean up the system.

Matt Fuller: "As the House returns Monday, Speaker John A. Boehner faces two big tests of his hold on the ever-unruly Republican Conference: pushing through the GOP budget and putting the final touches on a speaker-approved Medicare 'doc fix.' After days of closed-door whip checks and haggling on amendments, the House Budget Committee advanced its fiscal 2016 budget on March 19 by a 22-13 vote.

The court said the "residence requirement severely burdens interactive political speech and association rights protected by the First Amendment," without advancing any compelling state interest.

Regardless of how one feels about this issue, the use of a constitutional amendment to advance a parochial agenda (be it a particular type of science or a particular definition of marriage) is a bad idea and should be opposed.

He was apparently referring to a 1987 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creation science violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment by advancing religion.

The 75 or so legislative supporters of a right to gay marriage, knowing they did not have enough votes for a majority, made use of a strategic gambit throughout the constitutional convention: many of them repeatedly voted for the amendment as it advanced through a series of preliminary votes, their goal being to keep more conservative amendments off the floor.

In a dissent summarized from the bench, Justice Elena Kagan said the Arizona law advanced First Amendment values.

Neither the text of the Amendment nor the arguments advanced by its proponents evidenced the slightest interest in limiting any legislature's authority to regulate private civilian uses of firearms.

The Radical Republicans who advanced the Thirteenth Amendment hoped to ensure broad civil and human rights for the newly freed people but its scope was disputed before it even went into effect.

Some senators are advocating voting for a series of amendments in advance of the background check measure, allowing members to vote for or against proposals like a renewed assault weapons ban, a limit on high-capacity magazines and a new mental health provision before weighing in on the background check measure.

When Ms. Lerner is forced to publicly take the fifth amendment, it may advance those legislators' political agenda.