Sentence examples for selective amendments from inspiring English sources

Whereas the alcohol industry had been constantly vociferous in lowering the alcohol tax, the second half of the 2000s witnessed striking changes in the political tactics and rhetoric that they employed to lobby for selective amendments to licensing laws and to the ways in which alcoholic products were taxed.

It has been promoting the sex-selective amendment, realising its capacity to fracture the pro-choice voice.

Furthermore, the use of selective stabilizing amendments is a challenging task as the majority of polluted sites are contaminated with multiple metal(loid)s.

"I am not aware of this new theory of selective Fifth Amendment," he said, referring to the possibility that Mr. Ebbers's speech precluded him from declining to testify about the subjects his speech had touched on.

Qualitative analyses were initiated within a couple of hours after the collection of faecal samples, using modified semi-solid Rappaport Vassiliadis (MSRV) selective enrichment medium (Draft Amendment ISO 6579: 2002).

Each combination of organic amendment and mulch was selective for a proper microbial community.

The laws fail the far more rudimentary "rational basis" standard of the Fourteen Amendment because they provide women with information so selective that it leaves any reasonable layperson with a false impression of the relative safety of abortion and childbirth.

Tory backbench MPs are pushing for amendments to the education bill to increase the number of selective schools in England.

Mr. Bush's lawyers have argued in federal court that selective counts in some Democratic counties were an unconstitutional violation of the 14th Amendment's equal-protection right because they treated some voters differently from others.

A district judge struck down the law in 2008, and an appeals court in 2009 ruled, in part, that the law was a "selective taxation scheme" that singled out nude dancing and a specific class of "First Amendment speakers".

Senator Lee's selective view of the Constitution is also reflected in another aspect of his treatment of the Amendments.