Sentence examples for laws amended from inspiring English sources

We are also trying to get present laws amended and new legislation introduced so no other families experience what we have gone through.

Mr. McKee would like to see the laws amended so that rent-stabilized tenants would have the stronger protections rent-controlled tenants have, and he favors limiting the number of apartments a landlord can take over.

President Vojislav Kostunica of Yugoslavia reaffirmed here today that he wanted his country's laws amended to allow the government to cooperate with the Balkan war crimes tribunal in The Hague, but he stopped short of saying whether the former president, Slobodan Milosevic, would be turned over to the court.

Relying on that legal argument in the Florida lawsuit, lawyers with the Brennan Center for Justice, a law clinic at New York University that has worked on voting rights issues, argue that the state's felony disenfranchisement laws, amended during Reconstruction after blacks won the right to vote, were designed to deny suffrage to newly freed blacks.

Since then, the Council has enacted numerous laws amending the Charter".

The brief also argues that if the court ruling concerning term limits is correct, "then all of these local laws amending the Charter must also be considered void".

Parliament passes new laws, amends existing laws, and repeals old laws.

Polls show that most people want to see the new health law amended, not scrapped altogether.

The 2008 immunity law amended earlier legislation passed by Mr. Berlusconi's allies but rejected by the Constitutional Court in 2004.

The recent Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law amended the accounting rules to permit exchanging information with overseas regulators, paving the way for Monday's agreement.

The 1982 change came about when Arthur Eisenberg, a lawyer for the New York Civil Liberties Union who had represented him in the 1982 fight to get the law amended, turned to Edward C. Wallace, then a city councilman at large from Manhattan.