Sentence examples for winning amendments from inspiring English sources

Some of the winning amendments are doggone mean (So be it!), others are pretty dumb (So be it!), a few might be called dangerous (So be it!), and plenty are just plain goofy (So be it!).

Following the concerns expressed about the breadth of scope this legislation could have, Liberal Democrat MPs proposed and won amendments in the Commons to offer some reassurance.

And, last September, in a historic moment on the path to winning an amendment, 54 U.S. Senators voted for an amendment.

"My instinct is that there probably would not be a winning First Amendment defense because of the confluence of two factors," Professor Smolla said.

That means we're about one third of the way towards winning an amendment.

"Last year, we came only nine votes shy of winning an amendment to stop federal interference with state marijuana laws.

When U.S. legislators voted to increase Food and Drug Administration inspections and reporting requirements for farms in 2010, more than 150 food groups succeeded in winning an amendment that provides some exemptions for small farmers.

We won three amendments to ESA.

But to do so, Duke must win license amendments from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and it already faces opposition.

"The point is not only to win those amendments.

When the bill was voted on in the House Homeland Security Committee, Republicans offered and won four amendments on behalf of the chemical industry to limit or prevent the use of safer chemical processes.