Sentence examples for amendments defining from inspiring English sources

Of those, 29 states have enacted constitutional amendments defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Twenty-nine states — not including California —have constitutional amendments defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

(Thirty states have constitutional amendments defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman, and another 11 have laws restricting marriage).

Mr. Putin called the nonaggression pact, which included secret amendments defining spheres of influence in Eastern Europe, "analogous" to the agreement by Britain and France a year earlier at Munich to accede to the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Having pushed American a little closer towards a Republican majority, Karl Rove, the president's chief strategist, does not want to throw it away on one issue.On gay marriage, the religious right has racked up a string of successes at state level: amendments defining marriage as being between a man and a woman have passed with thumping majorities even in liberal states such as Oregon.

By 2008, 29 states had passed constitutional amendments defining marriage as a heterosexual union.

Regulations across the government implementing the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its amendments define discrimination as including this unintentional form of bias.

Besides, the IEEE 802.16j amendments define signalling messages that are used when discovering routes with a predefined QoS level but do not specify an algorithm that manages the routes establishment and maintenance in case of a handover while providing the required QoS level.

Substantive amendments defined as changes that may affect the safety of trial participants or the scientific validity, scope or ethical rigour of the trial will also be communicated to the trial registries and funding body.

Alaska voters in 1998 approved a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Voters rejected gay marriage, overwhelmingly adopting a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.