Sentence examples for host of amendments from inspiring English sources

Republican senators have prepared a host of amendments to the efficiency bill, including one that would block the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.

In 2009, the Democratic-controlled Congress passed the same sort of spending bill, known as a continuing resolution, which was signed into law by Mr. Obama with a host of amendments designed to set policy.

A bill paving the way for a referendum was debated over eight hours in the Lords, with critics tabling a host of amendments in an effort to derail it.

penned a host of amendments to narrow loopholes that the GOP bill would create, while Reps.

As expected, the bill then survived hours of debate Wednesday in the full Senate, with Republicans beating back a host of amendments put forth by Democrats, including one that would have raised the state's minimum wage.

That measure, a bipartisan effort between Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, and Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, has been bedeviled by a host of unrelated amendments.

In Florida, viewers get all the latest Bush and Kerry ads and dozens more of for and against a host of ballot amendments.

You'll have your hands full fighting off a name-calling barrage of apocalyptic proportions from a host of Second Amendment "experts" who want you to know in no uncertain terms that you are absolutely one of the dumbest mofos ever to crawl across the face of the Earth.

A sprawling omnibus bill enacted under duress always invites a host of last-minute, usually mischievous, amendments.

If only a majority were needed to pass an amendment, a host of measures opposed by gun control advocates would have mustered enough support to pass, including the right to concealed carry of a firearm, which urban lawmakers stridently oppose and which could have doomed the entire gun control bill.

Lawyers for the A.C.L.U. have argued that civil gang injunctions violate a host of constitutional rights, including the First Amendment right of freedom of association and due process rights guaranteed by the Fifth and 14th Amendments.