Sentence examples for purpose of amendments from inspiring English sources

If anything, the purpose of amendments and clarifications to our laws and constitutions dealing with civil rights should always--as with women's suffrage, racial desegregation and inter-racial marriage rights--lead to a more emancipated citizenry and a more equitable bestowal of the freedoms the majority enjoy, not a clampdown on a vulnerable minority.

The resolve that we bishops bring to the work before us is nourished by a firm purpose of amendment.

Only by truthful confession, heartfelt contrition and firm purpose of amendment can we hope to receive the generous mercy of God and the forgiveness of our brothers and sisters.

If the Blessed Oprah is to be Armstrong's confessor, she will have to be convinced that he is sorry for what he has done, and that he has made "a firm purpose of amendment" to virtue.

The purpose and intent of Amendment 64, however, is quite clear.

"The purpose of my amendments is to get this bill so people can support it.

Correction: July 11 , 2000 Tuesday An article in some copies on July 2 about a vote by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A). in favor of an amendment to the church constitution to bar ministers from officiating at same-sex unions misstated the purpose of an amendment ratified by the church in 1997.

That is the purpose of this amendment".

The government puts it slightly differently, stating that the purpose of the amendment is to "restrict predatory behaviour".

He said his research showed that the sole purpose of the amendment was to prevent freed slaves from being shackled again after the Civil War.

One purpose of the amendment, part of a bill that would require French tests for potential immigrants, is to fight immigration fraud.