Sentence examples for formal amendment from inspiring English sources

Practices have to evolve without formal amendment.

But a board ruling without a formal amendment would be invalid and unenforceable, he said.

This change to the Constitution was not the result of, say, a formal amendment, but a procedural rule adopted in 1975: a revision of Senate Rule 22, which was the old cloture rule.

Diplomatic sources said it was too early to say if a formal amendment calling for an independent inquiry will be tabled by European nations in the next week at the human rights council, or if the issue will be shelved.

Ms. Segarra said last week that in calling Wednesday's meeting, she is abiding by a state law that requires the chancellor to submit a formal amendment to the capital plan when there is an increase of more than 10percentt in the estimated cost of certain items, including construction and elements like electrical, plumbing and elevator systems.

This was followed by a formal amendment while the finance bill was at the committee stage in the Commons which proposed that multinationals based in the UK or with a large presence there should make public information about the size of their profits, where they were made and what taxes they paid.

Despite the availability of this procedure, however, many if not most of the fundamental changes in American constitutional practice have not been effected by formal amendments.

On 18 June, the Parliament will discuss the proposals before submitting formal amendments at the end of the month.

The BSC cabinet and representatives from Cloyne will be discussing formal amendments to the offered proposals March 13th, before making a final decision in the coming weeks.

Jefferson has had his revenge - not through formal amendments, but through social practices and interpretations that render our Constitution very different from the founders' Constitution.

Some people, above all Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman, have urged that the American constitutional tradition includes not merely formal amendments but also "constitutional moments," in which We the People make large-scale changes in our understandings.