Sentence examples for amendments whose from inspiring English sources

Killock said that ORG, Consumer Focus and Liberty had all provided draft legislation and notes to politicians for the bill - but that theirs took the form of "probing amendments", whose purpose was to show weaknesses in the draft bill which could then be revised.

This can be used to produce soil amendments, whose management can be further improved by pelletization that, against technological and environmental advantages, has the disadvantage of requiring a quite high energy input.

Republican senators did not know what bill they would wind up passing when they agreed to move forward and debate them, and they will probably end up voting for amendments whose effects they do not understand.

The Civil Rights Acts and the Reconstruction Amendments whose values they carry were targeted at racial discrimination in its entirety, both its expression in law, but also at the social norms and private customs that those laws embodied.

Hence the plethora of so-called religious freedom laws and amendments, whose real aims are such things as keeping homosexuals from becoming foster parents or barring transgender people from using the restroom they choose — in other words, keeping them from being accepted in society.

And the safeguard against such harm is the Fourth Amendment, whose fundamental protections the Maryland court upheld.

Thus was born the Ninth Amendment, whose purpose was to assert the principle that the enumerated rights are not exhaustive and final and that the listing of certain rights does not deny or disparage the existence of other rights.

Even more fundamentally, Brennan argued that the appeal to tradition essentially nullifies the Fourteenth Amendment, whose whole point was to guarantee constitutional protections to those Americans who had not been protected by the traditions and consciences of other Americans.

We also may want to reconsider the Second Amendment, whose right to bear arms results in over 600 accidental deaths per year while also being responsible for 51percentt of suicides.

Yet, in cases that came before the court regarding affirmative action, Scalia discarded this originalist reading of the 14th Amendment, whose authors clearly would have supported affirmative action, to instead argue that a textual reading of the amendment provided no basis for such programs.

Much of the attention focused on the role of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a billionaire who has publicly opposed the constitutional amendment and whose long-running feud with President Lahoud has often paralyzed the government.