Sentence examples for toxic amendments from inspiring English sources

Groups like GetEQUAL and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights are concerned that amending the Civil Rights Act would open it up to toxic amendments that could weaken the landmark law.

Without it, lawmakers can wreck carefully negotiated deals with toxic amendments.

Democrats plan to use the process, known as a "vote-a-rama," to offer a long string of potentially toxic amendments that could make it difficult for Republicans to vote for the final legislation, Democratic leadership aides said.

There is, however, a possibility that because of a push to move the Financial Reform Bill along before lobbyists manage to gut the thing with their toxic amendments that crucial amendments, like this one, may not make it into the bill.

Parliamentary rumours suggest Labour is working on its own legislation to repeal the toxic eighth amendment.

The crucial turning point was a toxic air amendment that effectively soured the deal for the chemical industry.

Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals (Amendment) Act, 1986 (No. 11 of 1986).

Mr. Reagan's own advisory group on the environment, in a report to the President-elect, gave top priority to revision of the Clean Air Act, revision of water pollution control amendments, toxic waste control, conservation of energy and sound management of wilderness lands, among other issues.

As it adversely affects the aquatic biota, phenol is one of the 129 specific priority chemicals that is considered toxic under the 1977 Amendments to the Clean Water Act and for which the US Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) has issued water quality criteria (Singh et al. 2013; Babich and Davis 1981).

The in situ (in place) immobilization of toxic metals, using inexpensive "reactive" amendments, is considered as a simple and cost-effective approach for the treatment of soils, contaminated by the presence of heavy metals, when these soils are difficult or costly to be removed and treated ex situ.

The Taxation (Cross Border Trade) Bill and the Trade Bill have both cleared their Commons committee stages, but they may now be marooned in parliamentary limbo until after Easter, while the fragmented tribes of Commons Remainers plot to attach toxic (to the government, anyway) amendments.