Sentence examples for friendly amendments from inspiring English sources

Apple had proposed to amend its certificate of incorporation to make what it claimed to be two shareholder friendly amendments.

But administration officials are working behind the scenes with allies from both parties in the Senate to provide technical support as they draft friendly amendments to the legislation.

But now, the company does not have to implement shareholder friendly amendments in the form of majority voting for directors or requiring that shareholders must approve the issuance preferred stock.

After accepting a few friendly amendments calling on the city staff to make sure to cross all t's and dot all i's, Council Alarcon called for the vote.

The following draft amendment embodies this four-part strategy -- with thanks to readers who have offered friendly amendments to the amendment.

When the Coalition tried to pass a few friendly amendments to the bill, to address legal concerns shared by some on the Council, many one-time supporters -- Alds.

The nice old man who lives across the street will get up on his feet and say, "I'd like to offer a friendly amendment," and your first thought will not be, "How I love the democratic process!" It will be about shoving a baked bean up the nice man's nose.

Shier's modification of the Relational View can be considered as more or less friendly amendment.

We do not take Shoemaker's proposal to be a friendly amendment to the emergentist picture, for reasons indicated in O'Connor and Wong [forthcoming].

Of course, there is absolutely no reason that Fischer and Ravizza cannot see Haji's account as a friendly amendment to their approach.

The most vivid sign of this reconnection consists in the fact that several authors have recently defended a friendly amendment of David Lewis' best system account of laws of nature.