Sentence examples for sense amendment from inspiring English sources

Local authorities on Monday urged MPs to back the "common sense" amendment.

The government has made some positive noises about a common sense amendment to the act [that], while a small amendment, would send a significant message to the countryside".

Local authorities, including Tory and Lib Dem town halls, yesterday urged MPs to back the "common-sense" amendment when it goes before MPs today, warning that the current plans risked "opening the floodgates" to thousands of unsightly house extensions.

"Our common-sense amendment simply ensures that recipients of American taxpayer money make American workers their first priority as they look to hire new employees," Grassley said in a statement last week.

"I'm pleased these two common-sense amendments I put forward limiting public benefits to newly legalized immigrants are a part of this package as well".

But she had a sense that her amendment was doomed.

"This is really in some sense a disingenuous amendment.

"This is really in some sense a disingenuous amendment," said Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat.

Your endorsement of the first ruling while condemning the second reflects an odd sense of First Amendment priorities.

The press will be 'free' in the First Amendment sense when the judge-made qualifications of that freedom are withdrawn and the substance of the First Amendment restored to what I believe was the purpose of its enactment.

"Americans on the whole are stalwart individuals with a strong sense of First Amendment Rights".