It emerged last week that Russian authorities planned to limit public demonstrations and access to neighbouring territories during the Games, while local investigative journalists revealed that intelligence services have made wide-ranging amendments to networks in the area to allow for all pervasive monitoring of internet and mobile phone traffic.
Therefore, he criticized basing such wide-ranging decisions on the amendment as those involving school desegregation, abortion rights and the principle of one man, one vote.
Missouri's Legislature now faces the possibility of a months-long shutdown in its upper chamber over a potentially wide-ranging "religious beliefs" constitutional amendment that opponents say could allow businesses to deny services to gay and lesbian couples.
On March 2nd the House of Lords voted by 95 to 21 for an amendment to a wide-ranging equality bill that would allow civil partnerships to be celebrated in religious venues with religious language.
On Thursday afternoon, the proposed National Criminal Justice Commission Act, which the Democratic senator from Virginia put forward as an amendment to a wide-ranging appropriations bill, failed to garner the 60 votes necessary to overcome a Republican filibuster.
The primary objective was to address the perennial grievances of the left by amending the constitution; in November 1917, the Chamber of Deputies launched a wide-ranging series of debates on various amendments to the constitutions.
But the scope of the King amendment is much more wide-ranging than one California law.
Representative John Bingham, the primary author of the Fourteenth Amendment, pushed for a wide-ranging ban on suffrage limitations, but a broader proposal banning voter restriction on the basis of "race, color, nativity, property, education, or religious beliefs" was rejected.
Government in France is known for its high degree of centralisation but in March 2003 parliament approved amendments to the constitution allowing for the devolution of quite wide-ranging powers to the regions and departments.
"I know this at times can sometimes be a wide-ranging debate, but I'm not sure how Senator Sterle's colonoscopy relates to the amendment before the chair," he said.
