Sentence examples for an amendment to that effect from inspiring English sources

The Senate version of the farm bill contains an amendment to that effect introduced by Barbara A. Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, and Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania.

Members of the executive committee tried to amend that proposal to preserve the A.C.L.U.'s ability to take the grants, according to several board members, and an amendment to that effect seemed to pass by show of hands.

Congress should immediately pass an amendment to that effect.

We put down an amendment to that effect in committee, but sadly it was not approved.

An amendment to that effect was tabled by the then SDP during the passage of the existing racial incitement offence in 1986, but it was rejected on the grounds that there wasn't a mischief to address at that time.

An amendment to that effect was approved by 256 votes to 153; for the change to become law, it will need to be approved by the House of Commons as well.

There is, however, the question of whether anyone in Congress would actually approve a constitutional amendment to that effect, transforming the institution from a feeding trough into a legislative body.

But more than 70 percent of voters in Oklahoma still approved a state constitutional amendment to that effect, apparently persuaded by anti-Islamic activists, and a few cynical politicians, that Oklahoma was about to be brought under Islam's heel.

Responding to Anderson's report today, the Liberal Democrats — whose peers have been among the most critical of the draft bill — called on the government to table an amendment to give effect to his recommendation for a technical advisory panel.

I will be supporting amendments to that effect when the sale is debated in the Commons this week.

We believe the institution of marriage is crucial to the American family and that marriage should be defined as the legal union of one man and one woman, and we support a Federal Constitutional amendment to that effect.. We support a return to the policy of the United States military to exclude homosexuals as a matter of good order, morale, and discipline.