amending
修订,修正,修改,修订的
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- : to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
- : to change for the better; improve: to amend one's ways.
- : to remove or correct faults in; rectify.
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- : to grow or become better by reforming oneself: He amends day by day.
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It asked voters to amend the city code to allow commercial marijuana retailers in non-residential zones and marijuana deliveries and cultivation in the city.
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that 58% of Americans favor amending the Constitution to require that the presidential candidate who receives the most votes nationwide wins, while 40% prefer to keep the current system.
There are also several state and local referendums, including on whether to amend Virginia’s Constitution to allow for the creation of a 16-member commission tasked with redrawing election district boundaries.
He amended legislation to increase earned-sentencing credits for prisoners, proposing a six-month delay to give the Department of Corrections time to implement the change.
Many Democrats agree the law needs amending, but have not been pushing for the same sweeping changes.
So what the anti-Citizens United movement really needs to do is something even harder than amending the Constitution.
Here's one amending a surprising quote from the editor of The New Yorker.
Hatch is found guilty of violating his probation by not amending his tax returns or paying his taxes.
“Any talk of amending the Constitution is just wrong,” she said in a White House press briefing.
The problem with both these solutions is that they depend on amending the Constitution.
In an amending Special Order of 20th July 1893, the age was raised, but the phrase was retained.