Sentence examples for modest amendment from inspiring English sources

"This is a modest amendment, and I stress modest," Mr. Lugar said.

The current chemical safety law, which consists of a modest amendment to a 2007 appropriations bill, is clearly inadequate.

The modest amendment did not even cap noneconomic damages, a key to some states' success in limiting increases in insurance premiums.

When the Senate voted this week for an open-ended commitment to aid a war against drug cultivation in Colombia, 11 senators dissented by supporting a modest amendment.

Other, more modest, amendments will also come up, including one to limit the size of payments.

He said that he hoped to introduce some "modest amendments" to the Freedom Act in the next day or two.

To deploy the system, the administration has said it would seek modest amendments to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty inegotiationsns with Russia.

Dec. 12, 2000: A Deal Is Reached Mr. Long, the Enron lobbyist, writes to Enron executives announcing that a deal has nearly been reached, after Mr. Gramm was able to persuade the players to accept some modest amendments to the legislation, including a change that will further protect swaps from regulation, as he had long sought — a change that would benefit Enron.

Among many Russians, by no means all of them Communists, suspicion of American motives runs too deep for even a finely-crafted oration to root it out.As for the issues in dispute, Russia remains unwilling at this stage to accept America's fairly modest amendments proposed for the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty of 1972, though it now accepts some treaty changes may be needed.

Despite a last-minute and modest Senate amendment mandating a bit more disclosure by the crowdsourced companies, I'm certain that the hucksters of the world are seeing the best opportunity in years to rip off countless unsuspecting people.

Just consider how modest these amendments were.