How to Use amendment in a Sentence

amendment

noun
  • Meanwhile, critics say the amendment will harm the public education system.
    Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The amendment will permit non-attorneys to assist clients in filing CTA reports.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Senators rejected an amendment to specifically exclude them from the bill on a 28-25 vote.
    Jeff Amy, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Cicilline proposed an amendment stating that the pledge cannot be led by anyone who has supported an insurrection against the United States in any way.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • If the latest attempt wins approval in Congress, the constitutional amendment must be ratified by three-fourths of U.S. states.
    CBS News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The spending plan is essentially a mini-budget amendment to the state’s two-year fiscal plan, will also supply more money for Medicaid and rural broadband access.
    Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The amendment to the defense bill failed in a 22-to-36 vote.
    Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • In 2020, the amendment failed to pass the statehouse by four votes.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The entire text of the amendment is on the ballot this year.
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2020
  • People don’t know about the last half of the amendment.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Why are many doctors against the amendment to the bill?
    Chantelle Lee, TIME, 24 May 2024
  • Markey brought up the amendment but did not put it up for a vote.
    Maria Curi, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Canavan warned, but the amendment squeaked through on a 5-4 vote.
    Allan Vought, The Aegis, 12 June 2018
  • The bill may end up being watered down in the amendment process.
    David McKenzie and Nimi Princewill, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
  • An amendment could be made to lengthen the time down the line, if needed.
    Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
  • But the amendment might yet make it into the final bill.
    Grace Segers, CBS News, 12 July 2019
  • But a recent amendment takes the treaty a step further.
    Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Three-quarters of states would then have to vote in favor for the amendment to pass.
    Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
  • Lisa, the amendment process could have been your friend on this one—it’d be way more poignant to write the name of your newest lover.
    Ginny Hogan, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The bill, which already passed the House, will be sent back with minor amendments.
    Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2019
  • The second amendment is about the right to defend yourself.
    Mark Medina, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • In his eyes, Thursday's amendment made a bad bill worse.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2022
  • In the Senate there are calls for specific amendments to the deal.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
  • Opponents said the amendment would have opened the door to new fees and costs to rooftop solar users.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
  • The bill was not going to pass without those last-minute amendments.
    Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But others were against the amendment, wary of its effect on the city budget.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 4 May 2021
  • That’s one of the bases on which the Supreme Court can, in theory, strike down amendments to a Basic Law.
    Hadas Gold, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But there is a way to enact term limits short of amendment.
    Artemus Ward, The Conversation, 28 July 2022
  • The Wolf amendment, as it was later coined, has held for seven years.
    Alex Stuckey, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Nick Miller, a Rivas spokesman, said leaders don’t plan to add the repeal amendments to all the bills.
    Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 7 June 2024

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