Sentence examples for consideration of the amendment from inspiring English sources

Timeline of dates important in consideration of the Amendment: March 4 , 1789

Last year, 220 members of Congress signed a letter to Speaker Dennis Hastert, urging him to expedite the consideration of this amendment.

Hours before the House began consideration of the Amash amendment, the US director of national intelligence, James Clapper, warned legislators that "acting in haste to defund the Fisa business records program risks dismantling an important intelligence tool".

Formal consideration of the proposed amendments had to be delayed, in part because of problems with a copy machine before all the Samoan-language versions could be printed.

Of particular interest is the consideration of an amendment to the clinical thresholds of the emotional difficulties scale.

Late last month, they blocked consideration of an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have lifted the statutory ban that denies female service members coverage for abortion care in cases of rape and incest.

That gave President Obama an invitation to publicly demand fair consideration of the bill and proposed amendments — and a refrain, "they deserve a vote".

Upon careful consideration of the wording of Huelskamp's amendment, MRFF has decided to fully support this amendment.

Apparent confusion among Republican state legislators has delayed consideration of an amendment to exempt KU residents from the bill.

Then it's on to more stubbing out of legislative fag-ends - with Consideration of Lords amendments to the Recall of MPs Bill and the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill - in both cases these seem to be technical tidying-up, rather than huge unresolved conflicts.

The last serious consideration of a constitutional amendment to abolish the college, in 1970, was filibustered by senators from small states who feared losing their disproportionate clout.