Sentence examples for and difficult to amend from inspiring English sources

Jacobsson and Bergek [33] identify institutional weakness taking place when existing institutions are unsuitable and difficult to amend, and network weakness when there are not enough actors forming political consortia to advocate their demands.

Abortion laws are difficult to make, and just as difficult to amend: the 1967 act that legalised abortion was the result of a private member's bill.

Would the "Patriot Act" be so difficult to amend if potential amendment supporters were not at risk of finding themselves attacked as "unpatriotic"?

We've had proposed amendments to stop flag burning, and to ban same-sex marriage, and that's when I was glad it was difficult to amend.

A series of officers acknowledged at the inquests that this was unprecedented: it was a disciplinary offence not to write in a pocketbook, which is a contemporaneous note, very difficult to amend without it being obvious, and therefore persuasive, credible evidence in a courtroom.

"It should be difficult to amend the Constitution," Amar said.

It's maddeningly difficult to amend, which somehow pleases both sides, like a Cold War standoff.

First, it is unnecessary and unwise to include the objectives of monetary policy in a constitution, which is even more difficult to amend than a treaty.

As Sanford Levinson wrote in 2006 in "Our Undemocratic Constitution," "the U.S. Constitution is the most difficult to amend of any constitution currently existing in the world today".

Not only is the Constitution extremely difficult to amend, Mr. Rosen said, but immigrants in the United States have historically reaped far fewer rights than native-born citizens.

Mr. Paterson appeared to have won a partial agreement by inserting a significant portion of his health care cuts into the latest in a series of short-term emergency spending bills, which are difficult to amend.