Sentence examples for amendments against from inspiring English sources

And while China agreed to a watered-down United Nations resolution on Iran's nuclear program, it has not signed off on amendments against specific Iranian citizens and companies.

James S. Alesi, one of the four New York Republican senators to support same-sex marriage, said he expected to travel to other states to help defeat proposed constitutional amendments against it.

The plaintiffs request "a federal injunction, based on rights asserted under the United States constitution's first, second and 14th amendments, against having the state compel that their classrooms be the locus of implementation of the overly solicitous, dangerously experimental gun policies of the Texas legislature and the insufficiently protective policies of UT-Austin's president".

Despite its bewildering size 2,232 pages not a single page includes the House-approved amendments against civil forfeiture.

Fifteen years ago, Hawaii and Alaska became the first U.S. states to pass constitutional amendments against same-sex marriage.

Contrast this to the way the banks pushed through the 2005 bankruptcy law amendments against the opposition of consumer groups and law professors (some of whom have gone on to do other things).

Among those rights is immunity from cruel and unusual punishments secured by the eighth amendment against federal action, and by the fourteenth amendment against denial or abridgment by the states.

It has ruled against companies being allowed to take the fifth amendment (against self-incrimination).

He favoured, for example, the failed consitutional amendment against same-sex marriage.

We need a constitutional amendment against gay marriage to protect our own".

That is fairly settled law under the eighth amendment against cruel and unusual punishment.