Sentence examples for Way of passage from inspiring English sources

"He is one of the leaders of Congress standing in the way" of passage of a farm bill.

But it is not just differences over reproductive rights that are standing in the way of passage.

"You've got to look at the root cause of why people are moving, and then offer them safe ways of passage through some form of regional processing.

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats dealt a blow to President Barack Obama's trade agenda on Friday, voting down a bill that would have cleared the way for passage of a series of controversial trade pacts.

This touching scene is unlikely to have occurred in one of Hollinghurst's previous books: first because there were few women in them; and second because nothing would be allowed to get in the way of a passage of graphic gay sex.

Ruling party politicians were worried that the opposition parties would use the scandal as a way of delaying passage of the budget and measures intended to prop up the stock market, which must be completed before the fiscal year ends on March 31.

This can be performed by way of serial passage, a form of experimental evolution that is used, for example in vaccine development (Ebert 1998).

The finance panel, the next step on the way to passage of any measure, is now the focus of intense scrutiny.

Ainslie Jones Uhl San Diego, Jan . 19 , 2009 To the Editor: Re "I Wish You Were Here" (column, Jan. 20): Three cheers for Bob Herbert's recognition of Lyndon B. Johnson's "herculean effort" in leading the way to passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which opened the way for Barack Obama to become the nation's first African-American president.

The agreement on the debt reform plan helped open the way for passage of the state budget.

And they cleared the way for passage of a bill to finance the Treasury Department and several White House agencies.