Sentence examples for put an amendment from inspiring English sources

Lawmakers need simple majorities in each chamber to put an amendment on the ballot.

Baroness Grey-Thompson, a cross-bencher, will put an amendment to ensure that before the tests are rolled out in a hurry, parliament receives an independent report on a pilot sample, with a trial period.

"Yvette Cooper has put an amendment down, which I think is sensible... so I think it's increasingly likely already that we'll have to take that option because the government has run the clock down," he said.

That is also the view of at least 10 Conservative MPs, such as Anna Soubry and Nicky Morgan, who have put an amendment to this effect in the Commons.

Marla campaigned relentlessly by telephone and email, as well as by personal lobbying, and persuaded US Senator Patrick Leahy to put an amendment into a foreign aid bill to give $2.5m for Afghan victims.

Re "To the Faithful, 'Nonpartisan' Is a 4-Letter Word" (news article, Aug. 26), about Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's plan to put an amendment on the ballot this November to eliminate partisan elections in New York City: Every study comparing cities with parties to cities with nonpartisan elections shows that more people vote in elections with parties.

Similarly, the federal constitutional initiative allows citizens to put a constitutional amendment to a national vote, if 100,000 voters sign the proposed amendment within 18 months.

He told the Guardian: "I fear that somebody may put a wrecking amendment down.

Legislative leaders vowed not to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot, saying that it went too far.

Mr Raab has put a particular amendment down that would make some changes to this particular Bill.

On the last day of its legislative session in May, Missouri's Republican-controlled legislature voted to put a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on the November ballot.