Sentence examples for an amendment was passed from inspiring English sources

In 2004, an amendment was passed recognising Aboriginal people in Victoria in the constitutional preamble.

The struggle to gain the right to vote for women in the United States was active for 75 years before an amendment was passed.

The motion for debate on Thursday simply affirms "the approach to leaving the EU" backed by the Commons on 29 January, when an amendment was passed in favour of an attempt to replace the Northern Ireland backstop with "alternative arrangements".

In 2009 an amendment was passed to the Domestic and Family Violence Act, 2007 making it mandatory for adults to report to police if harm has occurred or the reasonable belief that it will occur to persons in a domestic relationship.

In December 2016, parliament descended into chaos when an amendment was passed to remove seven public holidays.

In 1976, an amendment was passed to allow women to vote and become council members and later the voting age was increased from 21 to 25.

If such an amendment were passed, states would be permitted to ban films, books, abortion advice or any corporate speech deemed objectionable.

In 1991 a constitutional amendment was passed providing for a republican form of government, with a president as head of state; the amendment went into effect in 1992.

Although a reform package that included a reduction in the length of the presidential term and an expansion of parliamentary power was passed in 2007, a constitutional amendment was passed alongside it that rendered Nazarbayev personally exempt from the standard two-term limit on the presidency.

In 1918, a suffrage amendment was passed in the House, but fell two votes short in the Senate.

But after Roosevelt's election in November 1932, a Constitutional amendment was passed, making the date Jan . 20 partly, Mr. Briffault said, because "people were troubled by the fact that Hoover remained in office five months after being soundly defeated".