Sentence examples for approving an amendment from inspiring English sources

Eleven Republicans on the committee joined with Democrats in approving an amendment to add $150 million in emergency assistance for apple farmers.

Lawmakers in the 1990s began the process of approving an amendment to end the ban on gambling, but support for the proposal evaporated before it could pass the Legislature a second time.

It should begin by approving an amendment to the criminal finances bill which would enable the UK to freeze the assets of people who are involved in, or profit from, human rights abuses".The Trans Adriatic Pipeline has been a longstanding source of controversy.

Speaker Pelosi is in a unique position to weigh in on this question, since the House could put the drawdown in writing when it considers the war supplemental, by approving an amendment introduced by Representatives Jim McGovern and David Obey to try to lock in the drawdown.

But a bipartisan coalition, including just over half of GOP freshmen, voted against the F-35 engines, approving an amendment to strip an expenditure long bemoaned as pure pork, but defended by members of Congress from the states who would benefit from the project.

South Dakota voters approved an amendment banning the practice in 2006.

North Carolina voters approved an amendment that makes discrimination an official part of their state constitution.

And, this month, New York approved an amendment to allow seven casinos in the state.

Voters approved an amendment that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Voters approved an amendment that will allow Gov. Bill Richardson to appoint a state secretary of education.

The Virginia General Assembly approved an amendment by Gov. Gerald L. Baliles to a bill it had passed earlier.