Amending Sentence Examples

Similar amending bills were introduced in the 1905 and 1906 sessions, but were withdrawn.

The soil around newly constucted homes is often poor; consider bringing in new topsoil and amending it with loads of compost before planting.

A similar system was introduced into South Australia by an act passed in 1900 amending the Factory Act of 1894, which was the first legislation of the sort passed in that state.

Propositions to establish the judiciary on a more permanent tenure were also voted down in 1814, 1822, 1857 and 1870, and the state still elects its judges for two years' terms. On its own suggestion, the council of censors was abolished in 1870 and the present method of amending the constitution was adopted.

This was an amending act and not a consolidating act; consequently it had to be read as if incorporated into the already existing acts.

The Fertilizers and Feeding Stuffs Act 1906, amending and re-enacting the act of 1893, provided for the compulsory appointment by county councils of official samplers.

The amending acts, while not interfering with the operation of the principal act, authorize the creation of highway districts on a larger scale.

Fn Scotland the highway system is regulated by the Roads and Bridges Act 1878 and amending acts.

Los Angeles, like all other Californian cities, has the privilege of making and amending its own charter, subject to the approval of the state legislature.

The of Wales's ' 'c i evidence laid before the committee explained to the country for the first time the actual state of the royal income, and on the proposal of Gladstone, amending the proposal of the government, it was proposed to grant a fixed addition of £36,000 per annum to the prince of Wales, out of which he should be expected to provide for his children without further application to the country.

Fichtean idealism therefore at once stood out negatively, as abolishing the dogmatic conception of the two real worlds, subject and object, by whose interaction cognition and practice arise, and as amending the critical idea which retained with dangerous caution too many fragments of dogmatism; positively, as insisting on the unity of philosophical interpretation and as supplying a key to the form or method by which a completed philosophic system might be constructed.

The method of amending the constitution varies in detail from state to state, but that most usual is for the legislature to propose amendments, often by a prescribed majority, and for these amendments to be voted on by the people.

Should the people wish to confer them, they would have to do so by way of amending the Constitution; and herein lies a remarkable difference between the American system on the one hand and those of some European countries on the other, which, although they have created rigid constitutions, do not expressly debar the legislature from using any and every power of government.

As regards parliamentary elections (which may be either the " general election," after a dissolution of parliament, or " byelections," when casual vacancies occur during its continuance), the most important of the amending statutes is the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act 1883.

No Chinese labourer is allowed to enter any other Territory of the Union from Hawaii; and the act of Congress of the 26th of February 1885, " to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labour in the United States, its Territories and the District of Columbia," and the amending and supplementary acts, are extended to it.

This was accomplished by a series of constitutions known as the " Fifty Decisions" (Quinquaginta decisiones), along with which there were published other ordinances amending the law in a variety of points, in which old and now inconvenient rules had been suffered to subsist.

Amending statutes of succeeding years added to the commissioners' powers of fixing fair rents and cancelling arrears, the power of enlarging crofts and common grazings.

It declared that the law which called it into being was no longer binding, and that it was supreme in all matters incident to amending the constitution.

Presently this new principle of autocracy was extended to the king's legislative authority also, for, on the 9th of December 1682, all four estates, by virtue of a common declaration, not only confirmed him in the possession -of the legislative powers enjoyed by his predecessors, but even conceded to him the right of interpreting and amending the common law.

The control and management of the crown lands is now regulated by the Crown Lands Act 1829 and various amending acts.

The urban council have extensive powers of amending the rate, and the rate is collected in such manner as the urban authority may appoint.

Early in 1858 the House of Commons, by an increased majority, passed a bill amending the oaths imposed by law on members of both Houses, and directing the omission of the words on the true faith of a Christian from the oath of abjuration when it was taken by a Jew.

The legislature may also at any time propose a convention for amending or revising the constitution, but no such convention can be called without first obtaining the approval of the electorate.

An amending act was passed in 1900 and the examinations are now held under rules made in virtue of that act.

A convention for revising or amending the constitution is to be held in case a recommendation to that effect made by the legislature (a three-fifths vote of all the members of each house being required) is accepted by a majority of the electors voting at the next election for members of the legislature, but no amendment agreed upon by the convention is to take effect until approved by a majority of electors voting on it.

This is an alternative to the existing possibility of the proprietor amending the patent under the 1977 Act.

Fee levels may be altered if necessary by means of amending regulations.

Members to advise secretariat of any suggestions for amending the DPTAC Communication Strategy.

A freezing order or an order amending or revoking one may also include supplementary, incidental, saving or transitional provisions.

Home Secretary Blunkett has said he would be amending the Bill to allow " wholly unfounded " claimants to be sent home without appeal.

This measure, together with several subsequent amending acts, of which the most important became law in 1903, 1905 and 1907, forms a complete industrial code in which the principle of state regulation of wages is recognized and established.

By abolishing the illusory pensions fund, by applying and amending the Bank Laws, effecting economies, and increasing taxation upon corn, incomes from consolidated stock, salt and matches, he averted national bankruptcy, and placed Italian finance upon a sounder basis than at any time since the fall of the Right.

In order to perpetuate this system the method of amending the constitution was made extremely difficult (see Administration).

The legislature (Standeversammlung) is bicameral - the constitution of the co-ordinate chambers being finally settled by a law of 1868 amending the enactment of 1831.

An attempt has been made to publish separately the Index Librorum Expurgandorum or Expur- gatorius, a catalogue of the works which may be read after the deletion or amending of specified passages; but this was soon abandoned.

Members to advise Secretariat of any suggestions for amending the DPTAC Communication Strategy.

By amending the taxation of overseas income and by selective control over the export of capital, we have staunched this loss of resources.

Instead of tilling the soil and amending it, building a raised bed in such an area can be easier.

In 1904 the president of the Board of Trade brought in a bill on practically the same lines as the amending bill of 1903.

An act amending the Act of Uniformity, and carrying out in some degree Stanley's proposals, was passed in the year 1865.