What's the difference between amendment and repeal?

Amendment


Definition:

  • (n.) An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
  • (n.) In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.
  • (n.) Correction of an error in a writ or process.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (2) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
  • (3) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (4) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
  • (5) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
  • (6) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (7) The resolution must be passed by both houses but cannot be amended.
  • (8) The Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 was signed into law by President Bush on November 15, 1990.
  • (9) Earlier this week the Obama administration said it would veto the bill unless major amendments were made.
  • (10) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
  • (11) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
  • (12) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
  • (13) This article was amended on 29 January 2016 to correct statistics from the BASW survey.
  • (14) The factsheet, concerning NSA's powers under Section 702 of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, was also supplied to members of Congress.
  • (15) During the night the Government has to do whatever it takes to re-include those amendments – on which they will attach a vote of confidence – otherwise Italians will see their taxes increase again without important compensatory measures being passed.
  • (16) • The headline on this article was amended on 20 January 2015.
  • (17) The Vitter amendment is popular with the Tea Party, which takes it to be an accountability measure.
  • (18) They all owe their existence to him.” This article was amended on 2 July 2015 to correct the name of the hospital where Sir Nicholas Winton died.
  • (19) This article was amended on 10 May 2016 to correct the wording of Labour’s Clause IV.
  • (20) The amendment has sparked a particular backlash against the senator widely regarded as responsible for the decision, Ahmed Yerima, who is reported to have married a 13-year old Egyptian girl.

Repeal


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To recall; to summon again, as persons.
  • (v. t.) To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law.
  • (v. t.) To suppress; to repel.
  • (n.) Recall, as from exile.
  • (n.) Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
  • (2) However, when public disquiet at the crime and social damage caused by alcohol prohibition led to its repeal, Anslinger saw his position as being in danger.
  • (3) And make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of Obamacare.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lamar Alexander voted yes but has previously expressed concerns about the rush to repeal without a replacement plan.
  • (5) If you’re a congressional Republican, you consider Obamacare a “failure”, and “repeal and replace” is your mantra.
  • (6) In May, Maryland became the sixth state in six years to repeal the death penalty; it is the 18th state in total.
  • (7) Climate change funding should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.
  • (8) He has also demanded the carbon tax repeal be made retrospective.
  • (9) This possibility makes the repeal of the section particularly urgent and the supreme court's suggestion that it needs to be debated in parliament is nothing more than, well, stonewalling.
  • (10) The opposition said the government’s approach towards the budget debate in this critical parliamentary sitting week was to stack separate proposals into single bills to avoid scrutiny, particularly in the welfare omnibus bills, and to crowd out the agenda with renewed parliamentary debates on carbon- and mining-tax repeals.
  • (11) Gravett and others who lived through DADT told the Guardian that so much had changed since the repeal, though the past feels unbelievable at times.
  • (12) Approved: Nebraska voters passed an unusual ballot measure to reinstate the death penalty after state lawmakers repealed it in 2015.
  • (13) They opposed the first iteration of the House healthcare bill as not going far enough to repeal Obamacare.
  • (14) But in the short-term it’s better to have something reducing emissions than having nothing.” Palmer, whose senators also voted to repeal the former government’s emissions trading scheme – which is how Australia was left without a climate policy – said he believed Australia would eventually have to move to such a scheme.
  • (15) The policy wouldn’t officially be repealed until 20 September 2011.
  • (16) The demonstrators want a national vote on whether or not to repeal the 8th amendment to Ireland’s constitution, which effectively makes the fetus even at early gestation an Irish citizen.
  • (17) However, in July the coalition government said it had no plans to repeal the act.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many progressives consider the self-described farm girl their worst nightmare: a Tea Party radical who wants to privatise social security, curb abortion rights, repeal Obamacare and abolish the Environmental Protection Agency.
  • (19) Ironically, the law being used to pursue the groups is one from the era of Mubarak, which the government had said it intended to repeal.
  • (20) The House speaker, Paul Ryan, said that after Congress’s forthcoming weeklong recess, “we intend to introduce legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare”, without giving further details.