Sentence examples for delicate amendments from inspiring English sources
Politically delicate amendments remain on both the Democratic and Republican sides, including two by Mr. Leahy that would allow United States citizens to seek a permanent resident visa, known as a green card, for a same-sex foreign partner — something they cannot do now.
His delicate sidestep of Amendment One, a ballot initiative to be decided May 8 that would recognize marriage between a man and a woman as the only legal domestic partnership in North Carolina, is seen by some as another sign that he is not fully committed to gay rights — an interpretation that could dampen the enthusiasm of the young voters he is trying to court.
White House officials have said the president is holding back to allow the senators who wrote the bill — including Senators Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York — to manage the delicate voting on the amendments.
Since each amendment affected a different part of the bill and a different group of House members, the effect was to balkanize the entire Shays-Meehan measure and make it likely that defeat of one or more amendments would break apart the bill's delicate coalition of backers.
She also went after that old conservative villain Hollywood, saying, "They use these delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets" for "their anti-Second Amendment causes".
Those cases concerned the Fourth Amendment's limitations on search and seizure, however, not the delicate interplay of federal and state law.
We acknowledge and explore the delicate balancing act between freedom of speech as enshrined in the First Amendment and the obligation of Internet providers to provide a safe environment for users.
But adding this amendment to the nation's bedrock charter could alter the Constitution's delicate balance between accuser and accused, and even end up subverting the victims' main interest -- timely and fair prosecution and conviction of their assailants.
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.
