Sentence examples for despite the amendment from inspiring English sources

"I was shocked that nothing had happened despite the amendment.

Despite the amendment, some of its MPs may still vote against the bill, which charities have called "a tax on the poorest of the poor".

Despite the amendment to the overarching ministerial instructions, the AFP still has a specific guideline on how to carry out international police-to-police assistance in death-penalty situations, which requires senior AFP managers to weigh up factors including the risk of capital punishment.

Despite the amendment's passage, the nation supported staying its implementation in court.

Despite the Amendment's popularity and large number of sponsors, Majority Leader Taft stalled the bill itself in the Judiciary Committee at the behest of President Eisenhower.

Cases of rape go largely unreported due to fear of retaliation, shame, and an extremely low prosecution rate despite the amendment to the Haitian Penal Code in 2005 that redefined rape as a criminal offense rather than a "moral assault".

And despite the amendments, things have not really changed.

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.

Whether or not companies continued to view Canada as a good place to invest despite the amendments is debatable.

Despite the amendments proposed by the Committee on Legal Affairs, then, we should not remove ethically problematic products - those derived from embryonic stem cells, for example - from the scope of the regulation.

Despite the delay, the amendment by Mr. Sanders requiring the audit appeared to have enough support among senators in both parties to win adoption easily.