Sentence examples for in the form of an amendment from inspiring English sources

The vote, 52 to 46, came in the form of an amendment, sponsored by Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, to a State Department spending bill.

The proposal, now in the form of an amendment to the Senate's Defense Authorization Bill, is expected to encounter no opposition in the House-Senate conference committee.

The move came in the form of an amendment to a penal reform bill that was receiving its first reading in parliament.

In the past, it's been opponents of same-sex marriage who have brought the issue before voters, commonly in the form of an amendment like the Minnesota one.

The battle over the target has the potential to be one of the most bitter within government and will come in the form of an amendment tabled by Tim Yeo, the Conservative chairman of the energy select committee.

The Democratic majority on the committee, meanwhile, resisted the temptation to make the bill so liberal as to put off wavering Republicans: Patrick Leahy, the chairman, withdrew a potential deal-breaker in the form of an amendment to allow gay Americans to sponsor their partners for visas.So is immigration reform all but admitted, so to speak?

Ironically, in response to perceived insults like this one, the victims' -rights movement seems bent on an overcompensation of its own--in the form of an amendment to the Constitution.

The Senate may take up similar legislation any day now, in the form of an Appropriations Amendment.

Lawmakers and advocates said that guarantee should come in the form of an Equal Rights Amendment.

Each of these amendments would have required presidential approval, in the form of an emergency declaration, before they could be spent.

But if a church is rejected by the Parliament, the rejection comes in the form of a parliamentary "order" (határozat) and not an amendment to the "law" (törvény).