Sentence examples for amendments instituted from inspiring English sources

Amendments instituted by Gov. Hiram Johnson in 1911 included provisions for voter initiative of and referendum on legislation, the recall of elected officials (used to oust a sitting governor in 2003), the direct primary, woman suffrage, and a unique system that allowed candidates to run in primaries of opposing political parties.

While three other states were holdouts when the amendment was instituted in 1865, New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky all eventually came around to do the right thing in the years that followed.

The amendments would institute a mandatory waiting period for abortions of 48 hours to one week, depending on how long the woman had been pregnant.

This concern with land and the race of those who inhabit it leads one to perhaps the most frightening plank in the nativist platform: the proposal to revoke the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution originally instituted to protect the citizenship of emancipated slaves and thereby deny the children of undocumented immigrants birthright citizenship.

Since 1999 we've taken solid steps toward democracy and instituted major constitutional amendments.

Should a protocol amendment be made that requires REC approval, the changes in the protocol will not be instituted until the amendment and revised informed consent forms and participant information sheets and GP letter have been reviewed and received approval/favourable opinion from the REC and R&D departments.

Indeed, parliament must ensure that an appropriate process is instituted to ensure that amendments are accordingly effected.

Colorado's Amendment 72 would institute a $1.75-per-pack 1.75-per-pack 1.75-per-packurrentaxevels) and a separate 22% tax hike on other tobacco products, with 275%of revenues going to cardiovascular and pulmonary researchike

FL Amendment 4: Would institute a property-tax exemption for property placed under permanent conservation protection.

An amendment to this law in 1834 instituted workhouses for the poor and aged, and in 1925 England introduced social insurance for the aged regulated by statistical evaluations.

He pointed out that under the New York Business Corporation Law, unless the original sponsor included a flip tax in the original offering plan, such a fee can be instituted only by an amendment to the proprietary lease or occupancy agreement.