Sentence examples for amendments rather from inspiring English sources

Compost, peat, and sludge are used in agriculture and gardening as soil amendments rather than as fertilizers, because they have a low content of plant nutrients.

The pace of what is known on Capitol Hill as regular order was glacial, but senators marveled at the fact that they were debating the merits of legislation and voting on amendments, rather than being frozen in ideological igloos.

He recommended that both issues be addressed in the Act itself or in subsequent amendments, rather than left up to regulations, which are generally subject to less scrutiny and can only be invalidated by a vote from a majority of the Senate.

Nazma and Kalpona have good reason to believe the industry will benefit more from the new amendments, rather than workers.

Finally, future pandemic management may benefit from the implementation of a process to monitor in real time how communication messages are being received, thereby allowing timely analyses and amendments rather than relying on collecting information many months after the event.

Mineral-based fertilizers release their nutrients into the soil very slowly, and so are best considered long-term amendments rather than short bursts of food.

But it's clearly a move away from the constitutional amendment, rather than toward it".

Offering it as an amendment, rather than the underlying bill, often makes it harder to prevail on the Senate floor.

Democrats, say the DLC, need to say explicitly that they support legal gun ownership and the second amendment, rather than talking about tighter gun rules.

Mr. Dayton's stance helps explain why Republican lawmakers here are urging a constitutional amendment rather than merely passing a state law as Indiana legislators did.

Too many politicians — in Congress and elsewhere — prefer to blindly salute the Second Amendment rather than face the appalling costs of gun mayhem in communities like Aurora, where the toll so far — apart from the loss of life — is $17 million and counting for the needs of survivors, according to a conservative estimate in The Denver Post.