Sentence examples for losing amendment from inspiring English sources
He introduced an (ultimately losing) amendment curtailing a proposal to award green cards based on a point system that valued education and job skills more than mere family ties.
And so the problem is that instead of California losing its amendment, now 31 states lose their amendment.
I was trying to make a point, and for that to say that I should be silenced is the reason why I'm saying to you that I'm obviously losing First Amendment rights".
It's just California that loses its amendment".
Rather than a soaring tower to our free society, it is a windowless concrete slab, a monument to secrecy, diminished democracy, and lost Fourth Amendment rights.
The Massachusetts legislature has defeated a proposed amendment to strip these families of their rights, with legislators who supported the amendment losing their jobs to pro-equality candidates.
"In that scenario, why would you take the risk of losing the Second Amendment case at the Supreme Court?" Klukowski asked.
"I don't know which newscast you've been watching recently, but the First Amendment is losing its luster lately," he said to a colleague.
But his "yea" vote simply meant that amendment lost by a margin of 17to1919 rather than the 16 to 20 score recorded by the other dozen failed amendments.
This amendment lost the bill many Democratic votes.
