Sentence examples for limit amendment from inspiring English sources

The term limit amendment applies only to Rahmon, owing to the "Leader of the Nation" status parliament voted to grant him last year, which also affords him and his family permanent immunity from prosecution.

You might get them to support the Shaheen-Toomey payment limit amendment #926 that would place long-overdue limits of $50,000 on crop insurance premium subsidies for America's wealthiest large-scale farmers.

According to Roll Call, Mr. Reid: moved to limit amendments on a House-passed JOBS Act and set up two procedural votes for Tuesday — the only amendments expected to be offered to the measure.

Fast-track procedures that limit amendments and require an up-or-down vote may appear to limit Congress's power, but could actually strengthen it by discouraging the executive from going it alone.

It is far more significant in the Senate than in the House, since House leaders, unlike their Senate counterparts, already enjoy enormous power to limit amendments and compel votes under normal floor procedures.

Her approval rating plunges, and the narrative nears its manic peak, playing Cartwright's trials on the court against a presidential race between a reluctant Vanderdamp (his slogan: "More of the same") and Mitchell, reinvented as a television president in Bixby's new hit series — all under the cloud of the term-limit amendment.

The term limits amendment was part of Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract with America.

There was the sting of Mr. Bloomberg's failure to act quickly on Mr. Miller's term limits amendment.

The term-limits amendment, upheld in the 47-to-2 override vote, addresses what supporters call a flaw in the law that limits some members to a total of six years in office rather than the maximum of eight available to most elected officials in the city.

Candidate Instructions Opening a new front in the battle over term limits for elected officials, the court agreed to hear an appeal by the State of Missouri from a ruling that invalidated a state voter initiative intended to force Congressional candidates to support a proposed term limits amendment to the United States Constitution.

The amendment, an apparently unique attempt to influence the way the state's congressmen vote, instructs all Missouri candidates for Congress to try to pass a term-limits amendment to the U.S. Constitution.