Sentence examples for destructive amendments from inspiring English sources

The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, mustered enough votes to defeat several destructive amendments while approving a very good one.

Their budget resolution and the destructive amendments attached to it not only challenged the very premise of the report — that protecting wild lands from commercial development is essential to a nation's physical and emotional health — but also some of the important weapons that make that possible.

One particularly destructive amendment to the House's irresponsible budget bill would strip the E.P.A. of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles and stationary sources.

Another possible destructive amendment would knock out the bill's restrictions on fund-raising for sham "issue ads" run just before an election by independent groups to generate votes for their favored candidates.

When the legislation comes up for a full vote in the House, members should strip it of this destructive amendment that only entrenches an antiregulatory policy of the Bush years.

They want a disclosure requirement that is so inequitable and destructive of First Amendment rights that it cannot pass.

It would also replace the destructive Farm Bill amendment introduced by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), which would nullify state and local laws that place any standards or rules on agriculture.

The fact that the vote on the total ban on the destructive research of embryos (Amendment No 86/3 by Mr Fleming), has... (Explanation of vote abbreviated in accordance with Rule 137(1) of the Rules of Procedure).

Santorum proclaimed: "If you believe this is a tyrannical act of oligarchical judges, an affront on first-amendment rights and destructive of the basic building blocks of society and you say it's time to move on, why are you running for president?" He made clear he would not move on, and said: "This decision will not stand".

"[The amendments] are not destructive of the bill, but in each case are designed to put back into the bill the powers for the regulator or the protections for those regulated which are necessary for an effective regulatory regime, and which would be abolished if the repeal of part 1 of the 2014 act went ahead," he said.

However misleading and destructive these messages may be, they are protected under the first amendment guarantees of freedom of speech.