amend law
Frequency: 6.04.0 per million words
To make a change to an existing law.
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- Parliament voted to amend the law on taxation.
- The law was amended to give more rights to tenants.
- It's a long and complex process to amend a federal law.
- The opposition party is proposing to amend the new immigration law.
- After much debate, they decided not to amend the controversial law.
- Amending this law will require a two-thirds majority in the Senate.
- The government has amended several laws in response to the economic crisis.
- Activists are campaigning to amend the environmental protection law.
- A special committee was formed with the purpose of amending the electoral law.
- If we don't amend this law now, the problem will only get worse.