Example sentences for: amend

How can you use “amend” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott proposed to amend the McCain-Feingold bill to ban unions from funneling dues to political activity without workers' explicit consent.

  • To amend the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution through expansion of cap and trade programs, to provide an alternative regulatory classification for units subject to the cap and trade programs, and for other purposes.

  • Among the possible hitches: 1) Congress might amend the bill in ways unacceptable to the companies; 2) the White House might reject the bill if it provides too much legal immunity and too little money to the fund; and 3) a congressional ban on tobacco lawsuits might be unconstitutional.

  • '" The court invalidated, as impermissible viewpoint discrimination, the qualification that representation could "not involve an effort to amend or otherwise challenge existing law," because it "clearly seeks to discourage challenges to the status quo."

  • Zakaria realized his error before publication and tried to amend his copy, but his editors failed to make the change in time (though we have now rectified our slip).


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