Sentence examples for important amendment from inspiring English sources

In another important amendment, three senators want to write into the law strict responsibilities for corporate lawyers.

Fifty years ago this month, John F. Kennedy signed its most important amendment, the Equal Pay Act, which guaranteed women and others equal pay for equal work.

An important amendment to the constitution, adopted in 1980, requires the refund of taxes if state revenues grow more than 1 percent faster than the level of the taxpayers' income.

One important amendment would ensure swift enactment of the Volcker rule — barring banks from risky trading for their own accounts and from owning hedge funds and private equity funds.

Near the end of the Paris peace negotiations that ended the war, a small but important amendment was added to the resulting treaty that prohibited the British from "carrying away any Negroes, or other property".

One important amendment added to the bill by Mrs. Lincoln just before Wednesday's vote would allow the Treasury secretary to exempt derivatives tied to foreign currency rates from the new rules requiring swaps contracts to be traded on an exchange and routed through a clearing agency.

And Lib Dem peers have rightly tabled important amendments.

Important amendments will be offered in both the Senate and the House.

Important amendments suggested by [parliament's joint committee on human rights] are still not on the face of the bill.

Important amendments to the highly successful African Growth and Opportunity Act have been passed by the House and now depend on Senate action.

In 1997, when the Senate was considering legislation to reauthorize the Food and Drug Administration, Mr. Lieberman was among the few Democrats who voted on the side of the drug industry on important amendments.