Sentence examples for calling for an amendment from inspiring English sources
The charity is calling for an amendment to make care visits at least 30 minutes long.
But the same committee approved a resolution calling for an amendment to establish a bipartisan panel made up of citizens and legislators.
Instead, the mandate committee took a longer view, calling for an amendment to the State Constitution to forbid new "unfunded" mandates — requirements unsupported by state financing — and laying out a process to review existing ones in the coming months.
But several top Republicans who indicated sympathy for the idea of limiting the designation of marriage to unions of a man and a woman, stopped short of calling for an amendment, apparently concerned about alienating some moderates.
Local authorities in areas with high numbers of eastern European migrants have written an open letter to Home Office minister Norman Baker calling for an amendment to a bill going through parliament that would make it easier for police to arrest "aggressive beggars".
That is why I have introduced a resolution in the Senate (introduced by Representative Ted Deutch in the House) calling for an amendment to the US Constitution that says simply and straightforwardly what everyone – except five members of the United States supreme court – understands: corporations are not people with constitutional rights equal to flesh-and-blood human beings.
The teachers union, which supports the safe-schools grants, called for an amendment prohibiting drills that include shooting at teachers.
Hazare has also called for an amendment to the election laws to require that voters always be offered the option of "None of the Above".
Polling indicates that Americans are increasingly in favor of marriage equality, but the 2012 Republican platform calls for an amendment banning same-sex marriage.
But the chairman of another gay group, the Republican Unity Coalition, stuck by the White House, arguing that President Bush had not yet explicitly called for an amendment.
