Sentence examples for amendments that failed from inspiring English sources

But provisions of the bill came under criticism from Republicans as well as Democrats, with several crossing lines on amendments that failed along narrow margins.

Any amendments that fail to meet the standards required by law will be illegitimate, regardless of whether they follow a public engagement exercise.

On Wednesday, Mr. Finneran sponsored an amendment that did not require civil unions, but on Thursday he sponsored an amendment quite similar to the civil union amendment that failed on Wednesday.

previously cosponsored a similar Federal Marriage Amendment that failed to advance in July 2006.

and John Rockefeller (D-W.Va)., who both pushed a public option amendment that failed in a committee vote last Tuesday.

The California Democrat offered a handful of amendments in committee that failed to get enough votes to pass, but said she has a list of 27 amendments to offer as the bill moves forward.

When that failed — the amendment was ratified in 1868 — they tried to get universal suffrage incorporated into the Fifteenth Amendment; that failed, too.

As Justice Anthony M. Kennedy explained, "An offender's age is relevant to the Eighth Amendment, and criminal procedure laws that fail to take defendants' youthfulness into account at all would be flawed".

Finally, that amendment failed, clearing the way for a vote on removing the flag that many black Americans see as a symbol of slavery and white supremacy.

Appleby says she is glad that amendment failed because the current motion is much better.

Historically, newspapers big and small have depended on the relatively stalwart federal laws protecting First Amendment freedoms, and when that failed to deter, a good libel insurance policy and lawyers to stand behind it.