Sentence examples for whose amendment from inspiring English sources

The rebels – whose amendment was defeated by 77 votes – were John Pugh, Annette Brooke, Andrew George, Mike Hancock, John Leech and David Ward.

"At a minimum, it brings sequestration and the reversal of it front and center at the conference," said Representative Scott Rigell, Republican of Virginia, whose amendment called for the replacement of those defense cuts with cuts to domestic programs.

Or the Durbin angle — Senator Dick Durbin being the Illinois senator whose amendment to the new financial reform law, imposing a steep reduction in bank interchange fees, "forced" banks to search for ways to make up for the lost revenue.

She didn't, however, namecheck the late Labour politician Robin Cook, whose amendment to the 1980 Criminal Justice (Scotland) bill finally brought Scotland into line with the rest of mainland Britain.

Lord Sharkey, the Liberal Democrat peer whose amendment on capping payday loan rates forced the government to act to restrict high rates of interest, said the electrification was the "key action" from the legislation.

Justin Amash, the House Republican whose amendment to end the mass collection of American citizens' phone records was only narrowly defeated in July, said the tech companies' statement would galvanise support for the USA Freedom Act, the bill which is proposing to end bulk collection.

By contrast with the United States, whose First Amendment prohibits any establishment of religion, there is a Church of England "by law established," with the queen as its supreme governor.

The New York Civil Liberties Union has come to the defense of the Ya-Ya Network, an advocacy group for young people, whose First Amendment rights are being abridged by police harassment, the civil liberties group contends.

No one, but especially someone with Asperger's, could ever have realised the horrendous consequences that would arise from a country whose first amendment is one protecting free speech.

Canon Jenny Wigley, Rector of Radyr, whose successful amendment to the bill was instrumental in ensuring the vote had a yes or no outcome, said she hoped women in the Church of England would be encouraged by the result.

Bart Stupak, (MI) whose Stupak amendment to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) nearly sank the entire bill.