Sentence examples for push the amendment from inspiring English sources

I also neglected to include PEN, the writers' organization, among the advocates that helped push the amendment through.

A huge coalition of religious traditionalists, from Roman Catholics to Southern Baptists, has been assembled to help push the amendment through; Republican activists across the country are up in arms; George Bush promises to hold a pep rally in the White House Rose Garden.

Still, their votes could help push the amendment through if it gets to the floor and some Republicans don't want to look like they are supporting weed legalization.

"Ninety-nine percent of the president's base will unite behind him if he pushed the amendment," he said.

But Woodrow Wilson, a president who had the winning quality of being very vulnerable to nagging by women, pushed the amendment through the next year.

Those who pushed the amendment claimed it would make Virginia more attractive to employers, who wouldn't have to worry about the state repealing its right-to-work law (if they ever worried about that in the first place).

The decision to push the controversial amendments now may have reflected a hunch on the part of Mrs Dorries and others that, with a relatively conservative prime minister in Number 10, the time was ripe for a change.

As a lobbyist, he successfully helped push the Jackson-Vanik amendment to the 1974 Trade Act, which penalized the Soviet Union for restricting Jewish immigration to Israel.

As with big issues in Washington, then as now, the drama is about choices with consequences: a re-elected Lincoln decides to push the anti-slavery amendment at the risk of prolonging the Civil War.

In the period leading up to this moment, the biotech and pharma industry has spent millions, much of it hiring well known democrats, such as Howard Dean, to push the anti-consumer amendment.

But her party was faced with some opposition as a member of its coalition partner Irish Labour TD Michael McNamara voted with independent leftwing Dáil members to try and push forward the amendment on fatal foetal abnormalities.