Sentence examples for support to amend from inspiring English sources
Unable to muster support to amend clauses enshrining pacifism, Abe opted instead to reinterpret the document for the purpose of his bills, ignoring warnings from scholars and lawyers that they are unconstitutional.
DeVos and her husband championed and provided financial support to amend the Michigan constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
UNICEF has provided key technical and financial support to amend the Child Law to strengthen Myanmar's obligations with respect to international law concerning children.
A White House spokesman said the president would also support efforts to amend state constitutions.
He supports efforts to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage".
Most parties are now supporting plans to amend the office-of-profit law, which is designed to avoid conflicts of interest, so as to protect 50 or more national and state politicians from possible resignation.Mrs Gandhi will not be gone for long.
The administration ultimately attracted the support it needed to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from moderate Democrats who felt pressed to act before the recess.
The United Nations human rights chief, Navi Pillay, criticized the "extremely harsh" sentence as a setback for protection of human rights in Thailand and expressed her support for moves to amend Thailand's lèse-majesté laws.
The sentencing drew a rebuke from the United Nations human rights chief, Navi Pillay, who criticized the "extremely harsh" sentence as a setback for protection of human rights in Thailand and expressed her support for moves to amend the lèse-majesté laws.
Prominent evangelical Christians in Washington have been warning the Bush administration for months that conservative Christians may not have enough motivation to vote this November if the president failed to vigorously support their effort to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
Yet Takeju Ogata, the current president, says the Tokyo governor is "the cause of all these problems", because he should never have stirred up a slumbering territorial issue.Like Mr Abe, Mr Ogata supports a move to amend the pacifist constitution drafted by America in 1947, to give Japan the right to "collective self-defence".
