Sentence examples for amendments for example from inspiring English sources

All of the changes and amendments, for example, that were made to the Affordable Care Act were designed to try to make it bipartisan.

Under the proposed amendments, for example, for categories of costs where the lender is providing the services, the amount the lender actually charges can be no more than the good faith estimate, Mr. Weicher said.

All of Franklin Roosevelt's sweeping New Deal revolution was carried out with no constitutional amendments, for example, only liberal interpretations of the law by judges.

Some Democrats tried to soften the bill with a series of amendments; for example, exempting military personnel at war in Iraq.

One part of the legislation known as the Lincoln Amendment, for example, would demand the banks hold more capital.

One amendment, for example, would have imposed even tougher restrictions than the main bill on the large, unlimited donations known as soft money.

One amendment, for example, declared that the health-care bill could not be linked to a tax hike on individuals making less than two hundred thousand dollars a year.

In the 1975 amendment, for example, autism and dyslexia were added to the roster of developmental disabilities, and in the 1978 amendment a non-categorical approach to developmental disabilities marked a significant conceptual change.

As a Wyoming congressman, he compiled a voting record to the right of Newt Gingrich's (he voted against the equal-rights amendment, for example); as defence secretary, he constantly found his most powerful prejudice confirmed, that the world is a very dangerous place.

"Not as often discussed, but equally interesting," Perry muses, "would be a 'clarifying' amendment" — for example, to stop the 14th Amendment from being "abused by the court to carry out whatever policy choices it wants to make in the form of judicial activism". How would Perry clarify such grand phrases as "due process" and "equal protection"?

So the original meaning of the first amendment, for example, is not the common law rights of free speech or the press in 1791 in fact there was no agreed set of such rights at the time but an abstract statement of the right to freedom of expression to be interpreted and reinterpreted as circumstances and society's attitudes change.Mr Dworkin's words carry the ring of truth.