Sentence examples for down amendments from inspiring English sources

On Saturday, the board voted down amendments to add educational and disabled-sports representatives, then approved the new plan.

The Assembly Appropriations Committee voted down amendments that would have added $100 million for projects in South Jersey, but refused to vote on the bill itself.

Supporters of net neutrality have accused the European Union of undermining its own net neutrality laws after MEPs voted down amendments aimed at closing loopholes.

Labor supported the retrospective changes and joined the Coalition in voting down amendments from the Greens and Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm.

Among Lib Dems, Lord Carlile, the government's former reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation and Lord Phillips of Sudbury have put down amendments to the bill.

The panel also voted down amendments that would have added $100 million in projects to aid the southern part of the state.

(The faculty rescinded the ban after the Supreme Court struck down Amendment 2, in 1996).

The first government victory shot down amendment 8, which would have deleted the suicide clause in the legislation.

Justice Scalia's dissent from the Court's decision striking down Amendment 2 talked about Colorado's legitimate interest in the preservation of "traditional sexual mores" and Colorado's "moral disapproval of homosexual conduct".

Despite these substantial contributions, voters chose to legalize gay marriage in Maine, Maryland and Washington, while Minnesota voters struck down Amendment 1, which would have defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

But the reason it has not done so is because it does not feel confident that House Republicans will allow their key request — the bill for worker assistance — to come to the floor unadorned with watering-down amendments, or that it would pass at all.