Sentence examples for revising clause from inspiring English sources

Indeed, Mr Johnson rapidly became Mr Blair's favourite union boss because he was the only one to support the new leader's bold stroke of revising Clause 4 of the party's constitution, which called for "the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange".

Under a revised clause, all staff who accept relocation support but then choose to leave the BBC within three years will have to pay back a proportion of the money they received.

Bemusing, to say the least, given Labour first officially declared itself a "democratic socialist party" under Tony Blair in 1995 as a sop to the left in the party's new revised Clause IV.

Revising this clause would require a two-thirds majority in both houses of Parliament.

Mr. Abe has long expressed his interest in revising the clause in the Constitution that says the country must "forever renounce war," and he helped push through new security laws last year that permit Japan's troops to participate in overseas combat missions.

The Chicago Manual of Style has its own guidelines for avoiding exclusive pronoun use, too, including restating the noun the pronoun is meant to replace, and revising the clause altogether.

Congress during the 21st century has occasionally discussed revising the clause to reduce the practice of "birth tourism", in which a pregnant foreign national gives birth in the United States for purposes of the child's citizenship.

There was a last-minute proposal by Signor Mussolini for a five-Power conference "for the purpose of revising the clauses of the Treaty of Versailles which are the actual cause of the trouble in the European situation".