Sentence examples for back amendment from inspiring English sources

Colorado's successful experiment with marijuana dispensaries – pot shops for people with medical certificates – emboldened voters to back amendment 64, which allows anyone aged over 21 to buy small amounts.

But in Colorado, voters turned back Amendment 72, which would have also invested some revenues in research.

The Senate also began beating back amendments that would variously strengthen or narrow the president's military authority.

These members are seen as undecided about how to vote this time -- and potentially available to back amendments that would ultimately weaken the legislation or kill it outright.

"The danger is that this concession encourages Tory MPs to back amendments in the hope of changing the government's mind," he says.

"At a minimum, we urge peers to back amendments that allow councils to retain enough receipts from every home sold to be able to replace it in the same area," they write.

Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, perhaps the Senate's most liberal Democratic member, teamed up with Jesse Helms of North Carolina, one of the staunchest Republican conservatives, to back amendments on human rights, religious freedom and prison labor.

"At a minimum, we urge peers to back amendments that allow councils to retain enough receipts from every home sold to be able to replace it in the same area," the LGA leaders wrote.

Instead, Pence offered to back amendments in the Senate to address the concerns of conservatives.

One is an antic Constitutional fundamentalism that yearns to roll back amendments providing for the direct election of Senators and the progressive income tax.

and former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz)., who teamed up to beat back amendments they considered "poison pills" -- provisions that, however worthy on their own, would upset a delicate balance and break the coalition apart.