Sentence examples for prevent amendment from inspiring English sources

Planned Parenthood and the ACLU sued (unsuccessfully) to prevent Amendment 26 from appearing on the ballot.

These entitle operators to contractual guarantees and prevent amendments that reflect marginal price variations.

In the first two votes, for example, some lawmakers who support same-sex marriages and oppose the amendment voted for it anyway, to prevent amendments with more conservative language from advancing to the next stage.

As a result, Mr. Reid employed a device known in Senate parlance as filling the tree to prevent amendments — a tactic that outraged Republicans and often brought the Senate to a standstill.

And Ms. Davis, the only Republican member of the House Women's Health Caucus, brokered a bipartisan grand bargain, as lawmakers refer to it, to prevent amendments to the House budget bill that could have jeopardized an agreement to restore women's health dollars.

They also have used it to block bills from the floor in order to prevent amendments on related topics.

Coburn said Reid has used procedural tactics to limit debate and prevent amendments "so that they won't have to take votes, because it's all political".

This shareholding prevents amendments of certain parts of the company's Articles of Association without the permission of the Secretary of State.

"Give me ten million dollars," Roosevelt said, "and I can prevent any amendment to the Constitution from being ratified by the necessary number of states".

"He was trying to reach anyone and everyone to prevent the amendment from being offered," said David Horne, Mr. Lazio's former chief of staff.

Democrats who support abortion rights said they were furious, but it seemed unlikely that they could prevent the amendment from being approved, especially if many Republicans joined Democrats who oppose abortion to support it.