They crammed into holding pens that, like submarine airlocks, acted as passages from one environment to another.
Act as quickly as possible.
In this sequence birth, maturity, death, and rebirth were ritually repeated and renewed through sacramental transitional acts, such as passage rites, ceremonies ensuring passage from one status to another.
As an advocate of equal opportunity, Congressman Hoyer guided the historic Americans with Disabilities Act to passage in 1990, as well as the ADA Amendments Act in 2008 that strengthened the law.
And yet we act as though this passage were somehow a normal thing — and the terrible truth is that, in a symbolic sense, at least, it is.
Last week, President Vladimir V. Putin described the act's passage as "imperial behavior".
The gate can simultaneously act as a barrier to passage of water molecules while acting as a selective filter for other molecules, allowing them to access the active site.
For Olson, "the sentence as first act of nature, as lighting, as passage of force from subject to object, quick, in this case, from hart to me, in every case, from me to you, the VERB, between two nouns".
But like the first purchase of a car or tractor and the arrival of electricity, the drought and Senator Joseph McCarthy act as signifiers of the passage of time where what really matters – and perhaps this is what really matters in life – is Rosanna and Walter rolling towards the centre of their saggy bed and still finding physical comfort in each other.
Firsts that act as a rite of passage.
