Sentence examples for amendments down from inspiring English sources

The last of these may see an interesting battle over knife crime, with amendments down from the Conservative backbencher Nick de Bois, calling for mandatory imprisonment for the second offence of possession of a knife for adults and juveniles.

A full session of the parliament is expected to approve the amendments on December 13th, after which there will be a round of wrangling (so-called "conciliation") between the council, the parliament and the European Commission.A number of interested parties, including Britain's Takeover Panel, are fighting a rearguard action to persuade Euro-MPs to vote the amendments down.

Some Tory MPs might be unable to resist putting their own amendments down.

It only makes sense, then, that the Christian right should extend that belief of their Forefathers's infallibility a few Amendments down to the 14th, specifically the "due process" part which gave women the right to choose after the Roe v. Wade decision.

Unfortunately, the Democratic majority voted this amendment down".

Stickland pulled his amendment down, but then charged toward Springer.

But it did not strike the proposed amendment down, a move that could have provoked a clash between the assertive judiciary and a representative body bent on reclaiming for itself powers that had been absorbed by past military dictators.

In the Lords (2.30pm) it looks as if the filibuster is over and the third reading of the International Development Official Development Assistance Targett) Bill will now go fairly smoothly - no amendments are down, so there's no obvious way opponents can now stop it.

As a result, 2014 saw a historic low of 15 votes on Senate bill amendments -- down from 210 in 2007, Reid's first year at the helm.

We should not be spending so long voting on amendments put down when they lost their position earlier on.

The studies are being performed in accordance with the ethical principles that have their origin in the Declaration of Helsinki and all applicable amendments laid down by the World Medical Assemblies and the International Conference Harmonisation guidelines for Good Clinical Practice.