Sentence examples for drop the amendment from inspiring English sources

More than 100 backbenchers have written to Afriyie telling him to drop the amendment, according to reports.

Still, the next day, 17 members (who were later nicknamed the Rainy Day Republicans) bucked party orthodoxy to vote against a measure to drop the amendment.

The proposal prompted an outpouring of opposition from legal scholars, House Republicans and others, including six big asset managers that made a last-hour appeal in a letter to congressional leaders on Monday to drop the amendment.

He refused to drop the amendment even though Lord Hill of Oareford, the new Conservative leader of the Lords, accused him of "riding roughshod" over Lords procedures because clerks think the amendment is inadmissible.

"A smarter strategy for the C.F.P.B. might be to drop the amendment and the associated legal battle but require any issuers that charge fees before the account is opened to send a notice that clearly shows consumers how much their credit card will cost them".

Dirksen offered to drop the amendment if the poll tax ban were removed.

Since senior House Republicans and many leading senators oppose the trade-rules amendment, dropping the amendment, or at least watering it down, is a possibility, though it enjoys Mr Daschle's support.Yet even if that snare is avoided, fast-track will not be won.

Gregory has not publicly explained suddenly dropping the amendment, but Gatewood said there is a rumor floating around Kansas political circles.

Sustained counter-efforts and widespread media coverage, as well as additional opposition from leftist party leaders, pressured the government into dropping the amendments, a move hailed as a decisive victory for RTI.

Civil rights groups "are not happy" with dropping the Schumer amendment, Mr. Dodd said.

Parliament dropped the proposed amendment.