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amend English

Meaning amend meaning

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Definitions in simple English

amend Verb

— If you amend a law, statement, or piece of writing, you change it to make it better or fix a mistake. Pakistan has amended a law to give new powers to army courts.

amend

— verb make amendments to amend the document — verb (= better, improve) to make better The editor improved the manuscript with his changes — verb (= rectify, remedy, repair) set straight or right remedy these deficiencies rectify the inequities in salaries repair an oversight

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Conjugation amend conjugation

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amend · verb

Examples amend examples

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Simple sentences

Some people want to amend the constitution.
The Diet is likely to amend this unpopular law.

Movie subtitles

You have, my lord. Would it would please Your Grace. on our entreaties, to amend your fault.
Amend your life if you fear for it.
I detest all my sins. Careful.. and to amend my life.
Wait a minute, let me amend that, to bring this young man out here, because today he is 21 years old.
We'll have to amend our reports.
I firmly resolve now, with the help of thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life.
This giant step forward Amend the whole world.
If that prick fails to change his sentiments, if you fail to amend your faith, we will be all dead in a few weeks!
Well, I'll have my colleagues duly amend the record accordingly.
If you've nothing to add or amend, sign it.
Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.
Then they can. I amend the earlier rule.
Maybe we could get them to amend Merton.
You will amend the charges in accordance with the defendant's statement. and place his confession on record.
I promise to amend my behaviour, Miss Mertens!
With the help of thy grace, to do penance, and to amend my life.
You can always amend your statement later on.
I don't want to amend it, so leave me alone.
I'll amend it.
I firmly resolve now, with the help of thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen.
No, no. Let me amend that.
Of course I do. I need you to amend my will. so that what's her name, um.
No, let me amend that. It's not that I don't want to dance.
Would it would please Your Grace. on our entreaties, to amend your fault.
I confess it is my shame to be so fond, but it is not in my virtue to amend it.
Amended slightly - we'll amend him slightly.
Of course I do. I need you to amend my will so that what's her name, uh, Fred's daughter will become inheritor over my entire estate.
No mountain of gold can amend this ending.
If you've nothing to add or amend sign it.
I amend the earlier rule.
Amend that.
I firmly resolve, with the help of thy grace, nevermore to offend thee, but to amend my life. Amen.
Amend his life.
I firmly resolve with help and grace to confess my sins and amend my life.

News and current affairs

But to keep them there in the long term, the Iraqi government will need to amend the constitution in a way that appeases the Sunni community.
Because the Czech Parliament's upper house has an absolute veto over constitutional amendments, the opportunity to amend the Constitution was lost.
It is a question of when, not if, the Japanese amend Article IX of their constitution, which limits the role of Japan's armed forces to self-defense.
The central issue is a demand by all opposition parties and civil society groups to amend the 1971 constitution and abolish the 23-year-old State of Emergency that was imposed following Anwar Sadat's assassination in 1981.
When economics clashes with an institution's rules, policymakers must either find creative ways to amend the rules or watch their creation collapse.
A large majority of the UN adopted the proposal on 15 November, despite attempts by some member states to obstruct, amend, or bury it.
The problem is that if governments start to amend the draft constitution, the whole thing is liable to unravel.
It is the failure of the UK government to amend the statute that dictates the complex structure of knockouts that the BoE's ingenious staff has been obliged to devise.
If we do, why should provisions that make the constitution so difficult to amend bind a majority of the electorate?
For example, the two parties are now engaged in tense negotiations to amend the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Election and Recall Law to avert any repeat of the current confused circumstances surrounding the current recount.
And eurozone member states have agreed to perpetuate this financial-stability mechanism from 2013 onwards, and even to amend the Lisbon treaty to avoid any legal ambiguity.
Although many of the treaty's details are highly technical, involving the routing of telecommunications, various governments have submitted proposals to amend the treaty that include provisions aimed at facilitating government censorship of the Internet.
Even now, Yanukovych is attempting to amend tax rules in order to disqualify the popular Vitali Klitschko, a champion boxer and former German resident, from standing for President.
The muddled results of a Constituent Assembly that Morales had convened to amend the constitution reflected this reality.
In July 2005, signatories to the CPPNM agreed to amend the Convention to address the risk of terrorism more effectively.
All this changes now that the National Front no longer has a two-thirds majority - which had allowed it to amend the constitution 40 times in 50 years.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo appears poised to try to amend the country's constitution to allow himself a chance at a third term.
Treaties are more binding than national legislation, because they are more difficult to revoke, amend, or repeal.
In addition to these divisions, there are problems concerning how to amend the constitution.
Attempts by Obasanjo's supporters to persuade the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to enable Obasanjo to continue in office beyond two terms met a solid wall of opposition.

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