Sentence examples for keep the amendment from inspiring English sources

It was a measure of Mr. Silver's strength, a year after he survived a coup attempt, that the Assembly voted 91 to 48 along party lines to keep the amendment from going to the floor for a vote.

The vote, largely along party lines, was 12 short of the number needed to keep the amendment alive and 19 shy of the 67 votes needed to send the amendment to states for ratification, if it is approved by the House.

Consumer advocacy groups are livid about the Carper amendment, and their intense pushback may keep the amendment from coming to a vote directly.

That House-Senate conference committee chose to keep the amendment, although its members tweaked the language to prevent unintended consequences, said the bill's author, Republican Senator Jane Nelson.

The Montreal city council recently voted to keep the amendments to the controversial bylaw.

A crush of procedural maneuvers kept the amendment from being added to the final version of the bill, which the Senate passed Thursday.

Proponents are unified enough to keep the Sessions amendment barrage from gumming up the bill and making it collapse of its own weight.

If Democrats adopt the tactics honed by the Senate GOP in recent years, will McConnell still keep the Senate amendment and debate floodgates open?

But he admired the N.R.A.'s efforts to "keep the Second Amendment alive" and, like many other conventioneers, expressed bafflement with the mind-set that "you can stop evil" with gun control.

You keep the second amendment, we keep the fourth.

This week, as the public votes on whether to keep the Eighth Amendment, Broadly is centring the lives of Irish women affected by the ban.