Sentence examples for despite amendments from inspiring English sources

Despite amendments to the competition part of the coalition's Health and Social Care Act, I fear it will ultimately be at the mercy of UK and European competition law.

He said he favored the bill, wanted the measure in place by the start of 2009 and had the backing of the majority of the 17 legislators, but was frustrated by the demands of the landscapers — organic and mainstream — who have resisted the bill despite amendments.

Despite amendments to the law in India in 2013, a man who rapes his wife will not face prosecution if she is over 15. "The global trend is there has been some progress, which is good, but it is often two steps forward, one back," said Jacqui Hunt, London director of Equality Now.

Legislation to recognise foetal personhood past 20 weeks of gestation was defeated in the NSW upper house in 2014, after widespread concern that it could curtail abortion rights and have the unintended consequence of making later term abortions illegal, despite amendments excluding medical procedures.

Despite amendments, there are still concerns that broad interpretation of the bill could allow government agencies to abuse the information they gather through the bill.

Despite amendments that required two scrubs of personal information from any threat data shared with the government, privacy advocates continue to worry it will give the intelligence apparatus further access to Americans' personal information.

And despite the amendments, things have not really changed.

Experts in health policy and public, commercial and constitutional law have published evidence in leading peer-reviewed medical journals explaining how this legislation (despite late amendments) will lead to the abolition of the NHS in England.

Ms. Veneman and Dale Bosworth, the new Forest Service chief, said they believed that the broad thrust of the Clinton rules would go forward, despite the amendments planned by the Bush administration.

Despite recent amendments intended to bolster protection of consumers' personal information, privacy advocates worry that political pressure arising from a recent string of high-profile cyberattacks on companies such as Sony could result in Congress pushing through a bill, as ACLU legislative counsel/policy advisor Gabe Rottman said, "recklessly".

Despite these amendments concerns around the rape conviction rate remain [ 8- 11].