Sentence examples for no amendment received from inspiring English sources

In the two centuries following the adoption of the Bill of Rights, in 1791, no amendment received less attention in the courts than the Second, except the Third.

As I wrote in this week's New Yorker, no amendment received less attention in the courts in the two centuries following the adoption of the Bill of Rights than the Second, except the Third (which dealt with billeting soldiers in private homes).

Upon its return to the House of Representatives, the proposed Fourteenth Amendment received little debate; no one spoke in opposition to the Senate's addition of the Citizenship Clause, and the complete proposed amendment was approved by the House on June 13 , 1866 and declared to have been ratified on July 28 , 1868

The amendment received 57 votes in favor, including those of 12 Democrats, and 43 votes against.

It was incomprehensible to me at the time that the Levin amendment received only 24votess.

The amendment received cross-party support, especially from Labour and the SNP, but was struck down by the Conservative vote.

The amendment received 54 votes, but failed to reach the 60 vote threshold to overcome a filibuster.

That effort — sometimes referred to as the Brown-Kaufman amendment — received the support of 33 senators and failed on the floor of the Senate.

While the Senate must still vote on its passage, the amendment received enough support to clear a procedural hurdle despite efforts by Republican leaders to kill it on the floor by bringing up a competing alternative.

Last month, when the constitutional amendment received preliminary approval from the legislature, Mr. Romney, a Republican, asked the state attorney general, Thomas F. Reilly, to ask the court to stay the May 17 start date.

The amendment received the support of a majority, though it fell short of the two-thirds majority required for constitutional changes.Besides pressuring Congress, Mr Tate has increased the Christian Coalition's membership from 1.9m to just over 2m (though the Coalition defines "membership" loosely).