Sentence examples for election amending from inspiring English sources

The home secretary, Theresa May, has announced that the government is to legislate before the election, amending a Home Office bill already in passage, to make "coercive and controlling behaviour" an offence punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine.

During the speech she also accused outgoing President Viktor Yushchenko of "opening the door to massive and flagrant election rigging" days before the 7 February runoff of the January 2010 presidential election by amending the election law.

If they do, America and the EU should renew the targeted sanctions against prominent people in the regime that they largely lifted earlier this year as a reward for Mr Mugabe's belated agreement to pave the way to the election by amending the constitution.

Tony Abbott promised before the election to amend the Racial Discrimination Act in the interests of upholding free speech.

The whole thing is a sham because the ruling party has unilaterally selected the national election commission, amended the electoral laws to suit its purposes and systematically attacked opposition rallies".

A pro-life organization called Personhood Oklahoma is gathering signatures to force an election to amend the state constitution to define a person as any human "from the beginning of the biological development of that human being to natural death".

The senators warned that the United States would ultimately cut off aid if the military did not set elections and amend the Constitution.

They were there to lend weight to the call by Kyrgyzstan's opposition parties for Kurmanbek Bakiev, the president, who was swept into power in March 2005, to step down, hold early presidential elections and amend the constitution.

People for the American Way list organizational efforts in nearly all 50 states to end corporate influence in elections or amend the constitution.

However, another provision, Article 109, states that "proposals for amending elections law shall not be included in the work agenda of the National Assembly during the last year of the legislative term".

Mr. Netanyahu's supporters succeeded in amending the election law, allowing him to run, but Mr. Netanyahu rejected their approach.