Sentence examples for made to amend from inspiring English sources

In the 1740s attempts had been made to amend this system but had foundered on the parlements' opposition to a more equitable distribution of taxation.

In practice, the work starts with existing models; efforts are made to amend them by sequential steps until full compatibility with the observations is achieved, within the uncertainties of the observations.

However, it is still likely that attempts will be made to amend it in the Lords, in particular to strengthen the protection available to churches who do not want to conduct gay weddings.

In the Senate, Cory Bernardi raised the alarm that attempts were being made to amend public funding reforms the government passed last year, which limited public reimbursement for election campaigns to amounts that were actually spent.

Shannon told the registrar, Sally Barber, in a case management session at the Rolls Building in London that an application might have to be made to amend the Oystons' defence in the light of the new information in order to allege that funds put into Blackpool by Belokon "one way or another were the proceeds of crime, or probably the proceeds of crime".

Since an act of Congress challenging the accepted interpretation of the Citizenship Clause might very possibly be ruled unconstitutional by courts choosing to rely on Wong Kim Ark as a precedent, proposals have also been made to amend the Constitution so as to override the Fourteenth Amendment's language and deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of illegal aliens or foreign visitors.

"He... [needs] to make amends to my client," Tillotson said.

The Irish government vowed to make amends to the victims.

He called to make amends, to no avail.

The chance to make amends to myself for bitter disappointments at the previous two Olympics.

Sometimes I need to make amends to myself.