Sentence examples for clever amendment from inspiring English sources
"In Time" is closer to "Gattaca" and plays like something of a self-conscious, often clever amendment to that earlier film.
There was even a clever-sounding amendment to embarrass Hollywood-financed Democrats by restricting sales of pornographic films to minors.
The government also invades our privacy in multiple other ways, all built around end-runs of the Fourth Amendment, clever wordplay, legal hacks and simple twisting of words.
While these amendments are clever and even funny - most important, they are making a point.
He has since said that the amendment was actually a clever effort to sabotage the bill, which included a path to legalization, and prevent it from being passed.
The lawyer added that "while it may be a clever attempt, it pushes the 'required records' aspects of Fifth Amendment case law to — and most of us think well beyond — its limits".
"It's just kind of a clever way to incorporate and brand, to really attract the second amendment crowd and the gun crowd, because they'll all recognise that.223 is the caliber," organiser Dustin Stockton told the Guardian.
Through a clever parliamentary maneuver by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Republicans snuck in an amendment that designated almost the entire trillion dollars for use as executive bonuses.
With a clever twist to ensure parliament at least supports the direction of travel, the government has agreed to support a Labour amendment to publish a plan before triggering article 50.
Fourteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment.
