Sentence examples for endorsed the amendment from inspiring English sources
A Republican Congress endorsed the amendment giving women the vote in 1919, and 80 percent of the state legislatures that approved it were Republican-controlled.
Labour MP Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East) endorsed the amendment, naming a series of fatal stabbings in her constituency in recent years.
The group also paid for 600,000 telephone calls to likely voters, featuring the recorded voice of Jim Woolsey, the former C.I.A. director and Oklahoma native who endorsed the amendment.
More than two dozen retired senior military officers, including Colin L. Powell and John M. Shalikashvili, two former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, endorsed the amendment, which would ban use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in United States government custody.
Former president Bill Clinton has urged people to vote against Amendment 1 in recorded telephone calls, while evangelist Billy Graham, who has a stretch of road named after him in North Carolina's largest city, Charlotte, has endorsed the amendment in full-page newspaper ads.
Nonetheless, Newt Gingrich has endorsed the amendment in a bid to recapture the old magic for this year's midterm elections.
This time, he can either endorse the amendment or call a referendum on the issue.
The military leaders said they were forming a committee to amend the constitution and set the rules for popular referendum to endorse the amendments.
It organized a news conference to endorse the amendments and a big, glittery celebration on Saturday night, pawing the ground to become an official party after existing in legal limbo since 1954.
As a result the speedy timetable laid out in the new deal may help the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood, among others, to dish secular liberals and other fledgling parties in any early poll.The Muslim Brotherhood did indeed endorse the amendments.
Mr. Bush endorsed the federal amendment, saying a traditional definition of marriage should be enshrined in the Constitution to defend against "activist courts".
