Sentence examples for stage of amendments from inspiring English sources

Downing Street is worried that if the withdrawal bill were to be voted down before the stage of amendments, May would have to prorogue parliament and start again by bringing it forward with a new session and Queen's speech, a move also fraught with difficulties given the government's weakened relationship with the Democratic Unionist party (DUP).

The work on bandwidth extension and parametric coding reached the final stage of Amendment 1 and 2 to MPEG-4 Audio mid 2003 and 2004, respectively.

This stage comprises two parts: consideration of amendments to the bill as a general debate, and a final vote on the bill.

Concerns have been raised about a set of late stage government amendments inserted into the UK's draft data protection bill.

At this stage, only amendments not of a material character may be made to the bill.

Ministers have struggled to push the legislation through the final committee stages after MPs and government departments tabled a raft of amendments.

After five hours of debate MPs managed to complete votes on just one of the four groups of amendments tabled at the bill's report stage.

The bill will now move to stage two of the legislative process, where a significant number of amendments are expected.

The number of amendments to the proposal is therefore limited at this stage.

MPs voted through the second stage of the bill at 7pm and after voting on a long series of amendments passed it around 11.30pm.

Parliament will debate the final set of amendments on the theme of negotiation priorities, followed by the report stage of the bill, where we will know if any amendments make it through to the most crucial stage – the third reading.