Example sentences for: amend

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

  • President Clinton proposed to amend his earlier proposals by increasing wiretap and electronic surveillance authority for the FBI, requiring that explosives carry traceable taggants, and providing substantial new money not only for the FBI and CIA but also for local police.

  • The State Department has asked Moscow to amend the ABM Treaty--which most missile defense proponents view as an outdated Cold War dinosaur anyway.

  • Demanding urgent fulfillment of Arafat's 6-year-old promise to amend the PLO Covenant to erase calls for Israel's destruction, the Post also called for "an end to the long boycott by Arafat of direct negotiations with Netanyahu."

  • Funding recipients may "represen[t] an individual eligible client who is seeking specific relief from a welfare agency if such relief does not involve an effort to amend or otherwise challenge existing law in effect on the date of the initiation of the representation."

  • Section 1 of this legislation would amend section 5702 of title 5, United States Code (Per diem, employees traveling on official business).


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