"amendment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This amendment declared that every person born or naturalized in the U.S. was a citizen.
- The amendment declared, "The Congress shall have the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States."
- A human-life amendment would declare that a fertilized ovum is a human being from the moment of conception with the same constitutional rights as people already born.
- The amendment declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude (...) shall exist within the United States".
- In 1920, the 18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared it illegal to manufacture, transport, or sell intoxicating liquors.
- Growers filed suit in state court to have the amendments declared unconstitutional, but a state appeals court upheld the revisions in 2006.
- But give some thought to tricky questions like whether your amendment will declare that "desecrating" the flag may be punished, or just burning it.
- An amendment, improbably attached to an appropriations bill, declared that out of 2,000 catfish types, only the American-born family - named Ictaluridae - could be called "catfish."
- The amendment declares that the Chief Justice is the head of the judiciary and is responsible for administrative oversight of the courts.
- The amendment did not declare the vote an unconditional right; it prohibited these types of discrimination.
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