Sentence examples for insert amendments from inspiring English sources

He said that, given the limited amount of parliamentary time for private members' bills, there was more danger from other MPs trying to delay its progress at the next - committee - stage, or trying to insert amendments before the bill can gain its third reading.

The bill will now go into committee where bishops — who hold 26 seats in the upper chamber — will attempt to insert amendments to add protections for teachers or other workers who object on religious grounds.

His legislative programme was under threat from supporters of Lord Justice Leveson's report on press regulation inserting amendments into other unrelated bills.

In the House of Lords, the Labour peer Lord Campbell-Savours led a successful move to insert the amendment into the Political Parties Bill.

When civil liberties advocates attempted to insert an amendment that would create an exemption for people using religion as a reason to violate anti-discrimination laws, Canady and fellow Republicans rallied to defeat it.

After just a few minutes of late-night discussion among a small handful of lawmakers, King managed to insert an amendment in the House of Representatives' version of the pending Farm Bill that could nullify vast numbers of state laws protecting animals from cruelty.

The State Senate inserted the amendment to abolish the law on a voice vote last month.

BROKERS AND FIDUCIARY DUTY Senators had no luck inserting an amendment into their bill that would require brokers to act in clients' best interests.

It turned out his solidarity with the N.R.A. extended to quietly inserting an amendment that year into President Obama's health care reform law that restricted the ability of physicians to gather data about their patients' use of firearms.

Late last week, Mr. Dodd did something about Wall Street bonuses: he inserted an amendment into the stimulus package that pretty much chokes them off for the five top executives — and, far more horrifying for Wall Street — for the top 20 earners as well.

To solve this problem, Senator Al Franken of Minnesota inserted an amendment in the Senate bill that would end the practice of banks picking the agency to rate their securities; rather, an agency would be chosen at random, and the bank would be forced to accept its rating.