Sentence examples for announced amendments from inspiring English sources

The home secretary has just announced amendments to the crime and courts bill, which will transfer to the high court her current powers as home secretary to consider late representations, on human rights grounds, against being sent abroad to stand trial.

In its response, the government claimed its previously announced amendments to the IP Act are sufficient to ensure the regime is lawful.

BMC is also in the process of completing a merger with Boole & Babbage, Inc.. VLSI announced amendments to the company's shareholder rights agreement and by-laws to protect the company while it evaluates Royal Philips Electronics unsolicited takeover bid.

* Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, said it had decided not to proceed with a previously announced amendment of its overfunded pension plan for salaried employees because of proposed changes in the tax laws.

The prospect of losing pharmaceutical research business prodded the Department of Trade and Industry into announcing amendments to a crime bill this week.

That decision saw the Abbott government announce amendments to the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC), which seek to limit who can challenge large resource projects, with a view to reducing "green lawfare" by environmental groups.

On Monday, Thailand's deputy Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai held a press conference to announce amendments to Thailand's security laws to help combat human trafficking.

Then, in April, it announced sweeping amendments to those rules.

Senator Jesse Helms saw this bad ABM deal in prospect and announced that amendments tying the next president's hands would be "dead on arrival" in the Senate.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Bahrain's king on Sunday announced constitutional amendments that will give the elected Parliament greater powers of scrutiny over the government, but the concessions fell short of the opposition's demands for change.

Last week Alexander Khinshtein, of the ruling United Russia Party, announced legislative amendments that would allow inmates to perform forced labour outside their prison colonies, a move he said could help save money on World Cup construction.