Sentence examples for Secure passage from inspiring English sources

Their goal is to quietly secure passage of the first immigration overhaul in a quarter century.

But he feared that Republican leaders would secure passage by attaching it to another bill.

To secure passage to France, O'Neill will probably have to get some difficult decisions right.

We traveled to the south of France to secure passage on the Rex.

But the bill does not yet have the 60 votes needed to secure passage in the Senate.

Gould was able to bribe legislators in Albany to secure passage of a bill legalizing what they had done.

But in their zeal to secure passage of the legislation last fall, they played down concerns about the cost.

The city's increasingly ubiquitous fingerprint scanners allow its citizens easier and more secure passage to and fro.

Nor were even her indomitable presence and relentless energy enough to secure passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Two years later, she led the effort to secure passage of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

To secure passage of the Civil Rights Act, Johnson cut loose southern Democrats and worked closely with northern Republicans.