Sentence examples for single amendment from inspiring English sources

Then, too, not a single amendment met a 60-vote threshold needed to advance.

Polls leading up to the referendum suggest that nearly 50percentt of the public could not name a single amendment.

In all, the amendment comprises five sections, four of which began in 1866 as separate proposals that stalled in legislative process and were amalgamated into a single amendment.

That's not their personal tragedy: it means Labour in parliament will be so depleted that it can never pass a single amendment to whatever an untrammelled Tory government wants to do.

To declare an entire constitution unconstitutional seems different in both kind and degree from invalidating a single amendment for violating the architectural core of a constitution, itself undoubtedly an extraordinary action.

The Secretary of the Treasury shall issue regulations to prevent the avoidance of the purposes of this subparagraph through the use of 2 or more plan amendments rather than a single amendment.

Judge Paul Lipscomb of Circuit Court said the law, known as Measure 7, involved too many changes for a single constitutional amendment.

The opposition forces were still planning strategy tonight on how to take advantage of the procedure that permits a single catch‐all amendment.

Meanwhile, twenty-five per cent of high-school biology teachers believe that human beings and dinosaurs shared the earth, and more than a third of Americans can't name a single First Amendment right.

They didn't allow a single opposition amendment to any bill.

The single sentence amendment, that won in the House on May 28 by a slim 219-189 margit — it needed 218 votes to pass — said that the DOJ can't use any of its $27.8 billion funding for 2015 to mess with the medical marijuana programs in 33 states named in the text.