Sentence examples similar to amendments point from inspiring English sources

Republicans were trying to force Democrats into "bad votes" on amendments (point-scoring for the minority).

The new suit over the FISA amendments points out that the Supreme Court recognized more than 40 years ago that there are few threats to liberty "greater than that posed by the use of eavesdropping devices".

One source said there had been a number of extra meetings and discussions over amendments "pointing the finger" at Mr Devereux but the committee eventually rejected the criticisms of the official in the final text of the report.

"And even if there had been, the action was unacceptable from a First Amendment point of view".

Still there's a First Amendment point to be made: What separates the US from most of these countries is a constitution that guarantees a right to free speech.

After Clinton was done, Collins, a Maine Republican, stood to oppose her amendment, pointing out that the Governmental Affairs Committee had been trying to draft legislation to deal with precisely the same issue.

Supporters of the amendment pointed out that its opponents chose not to promote the idea of same-sex marriage, but instead faulted the proposal as an incursion on states' rights, ill-timed due the election, or premature given that there has been no successful challenge to the existing federal law defining marriage as being between a man a woman.

a "tyrant" for meddling in the District's governing process with the amendment, pointing out that Maryland just voted to decriminalize marijuana possession.

While agreeing with some of the concrete concerns expressed in the report about, in particular, women' s rights, and while approving some amendments which point the way to progress, we do not intend to support the European Union' s claim that 'respect for, and promotion of, human rights and fundamental freedoms... constitute fundamental objectives of EU foreign policy'.

The budget reconciliation bill would go to the Senate, where Republicans intend to offer dozens of amendments and points of order in an effort to alter or stop it.

The existence of such a definition in some parts of commonwealth law could be a place to start for the government in considering the amendment, a point the independent senator Nick Xenophon made on Tuesday.