Sentence examples for amendments off from inspiring English sources

The 75 or so legislative supporters of a right to gay marriage, knowing they did not have enough votes for a majority, made use of a strategic gambit throughout the constitutional convention: many of them repeatedly voted for the amendment as it advanced through a series of preliminary votes, their goal being to keep more conservative amendments off the floor.

As long as Republicans are interested in opening the door to the process, it might as well be opened all the way and finally wipe those "bad" Amendments off the books.

This Article traces the constitutional jurisprudence of both First Amendment off-campus speech protection and Fourth Amendment search standards as applied to the school setting.

With floor debate on some nonclimate amendments kicking off today, however, it's still unclear which of the amendments, if any, will get votes much less whether they can pass.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advanced legislation to approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline without amendments on Thursday, putting off most debate on the controversial pipeline until a floor vote next week.

What did the overwhelming defeat of your amendment cutting off [aid to] Egypt tell you about how much progress you're making?

It would probably take a more narrow approach than the Kucinich amendment, cutting off spending for specific actions like Predator strikes.

Two weeks after the primary, the leaders of the Ohio legislature offered to pass a law limiting spending if Blackwell would get the amendment taken off the ballot.

Furthermore, said Robert Oakley, Ambassador to Pakistan in 1990, Pakistan thought its national security was compromised by Washington, because a legal provision known as the Pressler Amendment cut off economic and military assistance to Pakistan because of its nuclear program, but did not similarly punish India, which had already set off a nuclear explosion in 1974.

Amendments to cut off financing for intervention in Libya are expected, as are votes on the nation's continuing military role in Afghanistan.

Leadership could also add additional amendments to pick off a member here or there, and they still have plenty of money to dole out to win over reluctant moderates.