Sentence examples for the amendment applies from inspiring English sources

The amendment applies to sales after Dec. 31, 2007.

Today the amendment applies to most uniforms, tents, flags and processed food bought with Pentagon funds.

Proceeding from that flawed logic, the court has now said the amendment applies to all states and cities, rendering Chicago's ban on handgun ownership unenforceable.

The amendment applies to the Government's Bill for a Digital Republic, which seeks to modernise France's legal framework around technology and the internet.

The Department of Education's follow-up regulation warns that the amendment "applies to all educational institutions receiving federal funding, not only those receiving federal funding from the Department".

But the amendment applies only to buildings with six units or more, not private homes, and it carries no penalty for those who violate it.

A scaled-back version of the amendment, applying to members of Congress and their aides, was accepted in the committee without objection.

In advising the court of its new policy on the Second Amendment -- which reversed a decades-old federal position that the amendment applied only to a collective and not an individual right to bear arms -- the administration also told the justices that these particular appeals were not suitable for review for procedural reasons and should be denied.

Originally the amendments applied only to the federal government, however, most were subsequently applied to the government of each state by way of the Fourteenth Amendment, through a process known as incorporation.

Although the text of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the Equal Protection Clause only against the states, the Supreme Court, since Bolling v. Sharpe (1954), has applied the Clause against the federal government through the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment under a doctrine called "reverse incorporation".

If the government wants to tap the line, the Fourth Amendment applies and the government needs a warrant.