The phrase "an amendment that sought" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a proposed change or addition to a document, law, or policy that aims to achieve a specific goal.
Example: "The committee reviewed an amendment that sought to improve environmental regulations."
Alternatives: "a proposal that aimed" or "a modification that intended".
After the vote, David Bishop, Democrat of West Babylon, offered an amendment that sought to overcome the objections.
The narrow defeat in the House on Wednesday of an amendment that sought to end the National Security Agency's blanket collection of phone logs appeared to have an immediate impact on Capitol Hill.
But the invitation to Mr. Ney was canceled after he voted on Friday against an amendment that sought to shift $446 million from a nationwide antiterrorism program to one specifically aimed at New York City and other high-risk urban areas, according to people who were scheduled to attend the event.
By a vote of 237 to 171 that largely split lawmakers along regional lines, the House rejected an amendment that sought to shift $446 million from a nationwide antiterrorism program to one specifically aimed at New York City and other high-risk cities.
I question why an amendment that seeks to enforce the original intent of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, which established the sentencing guidelines, is so controversial ("An Ominous Attack on Judges," editorial, April 7).
When Mrs. Clinton took a stand on the matter last year — co-sponsoring legislation that would have criminalized the desecration of the American flag even as she opposed a constitutional amendment that sought to achieve the same end — she was pilloried from the left.
It is, for all intents and purposes, the first amendment that sought to correct or at least clarify a seemingly concrete element of the Constitution.
A number of senators contested this provision, which would suspend the writ of habeas corpus for current and future detainees, but the amendment that sought to excise it from the final bill failed by a vote of 51 to 49.
But Democrats were concerned that a simple majority vote would allow Republicans to propose a controversial amendment that seeks to deny 9/11 health benefits to illegal immigrants.
But Mr. Romney managed to sidestep the issues at hand, refusing to address legislation that limits collective bargaining rights and a proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to exempt Ohioans from the mandates in President Obama's national health care law.
A "The bylaw amendment that seeks to prevent shareholders from voting if they are in arrears or in violation of building rules violates a provision of the New York State Business Corporation Law," said Arthur I. Weinstein, a Manhattan lawyer who is a vice president of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums.
