Sentence examples for Get a passage from inspiring English sources

She fled the approaching Nazis and boarded the only liner on which she could get a passage.

If you divide the second of these figures by the first, you get a "passage probability"—the chance, behind a "veil of ignorance", that a random measure will pass.

Tom and his mother, Rita, left Austria for America but after failing to get a passage from Sweden they travelled to Britain where they were later joined by Kurt.

The two men, John Rous and Henry Fell (no close relation to Thomas and Margaret Fell) wrote on 24 May 1657 that "We are still waiting here to get a passage for New England.

It would be less of an accusation to say that he got a passage wrong than that he pretended it meant something he knew it did not.

"On the other hand, we want to make any kind of way to get a safe passage, safe corridors for the civilians".

If this means we occasionally get a meandering passage or two along the way then the energetic, adventurous spirit on display should more than make up for it.

At point a in plan on page 25 managed to get a narrow passage through between two large stones; made railroad embankment northwards to south end of G 4710.

The Swedish veteran Jonas Bjorkman is poised to get a free passage into the last eight of this year's tournament today with Argentina's Guillermo Coria, the No5 seed, likely to withdraw with a groin injury.

"The prudent thing would be to extend the current agreement in a way that has the fewest changes to it so that you get a quick passage in the U.S. Congress," said Sharon Squassoni, director of the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies

But there is, I think, quite a significant distinction, in that in this case the text itself is forced to become complicit in its own demotion: if you don't "get" a particular passage, just click on it and ask the writer what it means.