Sentence examples for odd amendments from inspiring English sources

Out of the 1000 odd amendments we have about 300 serious ones to look at.

The committee members cheerfully plowed through 300-odd proposed amendments, while taking turns telling which country their great-grandfather came from.

Your endorsement of the first ruling while condemning the second reflects an odd sense of First Amendment priorities.

The idea of an unconstitutional constitutional amendment may sound odd.

Each is under a nondisparagement clause as part of his negotiated agreement, so Journal reporters and editors watched the odd specter of a First Amendment lawyer and a lifelong journalist talking about everything except what was on everyone's mind.

This may sound odd in America, where the First Amendment has pride of place in the Bill of Rights.

The answer is yes -- but the only way to do so short of a constitutional amendment is to add an odd number of seats to the House.

So it might have seemed odd to see Democrats clamoring to support an amendment Mr. Coburn proposed to the health care bill to require members of Congress to be covered by a new government-run health insurance plan.

On a ballot full of odd and confusing measures, I couldn't untangle the language of Amendment T: "Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the removal of the exception to the prohibition of slavery and involuntary servitude when used as punishment for persons duly convicted of a crime?" Does yes mean yes, or does yes mean no?

It would be odd, said David A. Strauss, a law professor at the University of Chicago, for that amendment to help gays but not blacks.

But it is odd that an industry usually quick to wrap itself in the First Amendment would so readily invite the government to read and influence the content of TV programs and accept government rewards for community service.