Sentence examples for called for amending from inspiring English sources

It also called for amending the City Charter to give board members the power to choose their own chairman, rather than the Mayor.

In what he described as a major initiative, Mr. Hoffa called for amending the Teamsters constitution so that it would require direct election of the union's president.

The Guardian's Spencer Ackerman reports: One of the major Senate critics of US government surveillance called for amending the Patriot Act on Sunday to rein in the National Security Agency's broad dragnet sweeping up Americans' communications.

Had he sought re-election to the Senate in 2000, he might well have been hurt by his D.O.M.A. vote and by his opposition to a 2000 ballot measure in Nebraska that called for amending the state constitution to ban same-sex civil unions as well as marriages.

He had called for amending, or even rewriting, Myanmar's Constitution, to reduce the power of the military that had drafted it in the first place.

Borhamy said that the unrestricted freedoms established in the draft suggest the freedom of paganism, Satanism and apostasy Borhamy also called for amending or including an interpretation of the term "principles" in Article 2, which stipulates that "principles of Islamic Sharia are the main source of legislation".

Another measure, called the repeal amendment, calls for amending the U.S. Constitution so that federal laws and regulations could be invalidated by agreement of two-thirds of state legislatures.

The report also calls for amending a 1986 law governing electronic communications so that protections for e-mails and content in the cloud are as strong as those that exist for their analogue equivalents.

Among other changes, he calls for amending bankruptcy laws to cover companies — retail banks, stock and commodity brokers and insurance companies — so that large, complex institutions could be fully dealt with in court.

Yet the report calls for amending the sites' proclamations to allow regional councils "to make fishery-management decisions as authorized by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act". "That's something that our members have argued for from the beginning," said Bob Vanasse, who serves as executive director for the commercial fishing industry group Saving Seafood.

The Republican Party platform calls for amending the United States Constitution to discriminate against you.