Sentence examples for amendments instead from inspiring English sources

Whips were concentrating on persuading backbenchers who had indicated they would abstain to vote against the amendments instead.

But I think for us to have basically one, two, three, four days tied up having debate on gun amendments instead of having debate on Kosovo and the military construction appropriations bill is not the way we should be operating...

Related: The Trans-Pacific Partnership suggests Obama has no sense of irony Yet the Republican majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who is in a rare alliance with Barack Obama on the issue, said he would refuse to include such provisions when he brought the trade legislation up for a vote at 2.30pm, arguing that Democrats should simply seek to make amendments instead.

Yet the Republican majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who is in a rare alliance with Barack Obama on the issue, said he would refuse to include such provisions when he brought the trade legislation up for a vote at 2.30pm, arguing that Democrats should simply seek to make amendments instead.

The present study aims to promote soil health and its plant growth providing effects further substantiating the use of organic amendments instead of fertilizers.

Whenever a lobbying report is amended, the CRP generally uses income and expense figures from the amendment instead of those from the original filing.

With no path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants, the 14th Amendment instead becomes a generational scythe.

As an amendment instead of being part of the bill itself, the ban is far less likely to pass the Senate and become law.

A case that might have served as the paradigmatic expression of the purposes served by the Fifth Amendment instead is used to obscure them.

Despite this, the government is not backing the amendment, instead offering a review of the visa system by the end of July.

Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, who had been trying to work out his own side statement on missile defense, joined in backing Mr. Corker's amendment instead.