Sentence examples for attempts to pass from inspiring English sources

Previous attempts to pass such legislation have met strong opposition.

Repeated attempts to pass federal labelling laws have gone nowhere.

It takes applicants an average of four attempts to pass.

Yet his attempts to pass on his enthusiasm have almost always fallen on deaf ears.

But his party has blocked any attempts to pass the bill in parliament.

All attempts to pass a domestic violence law in the past 10 years have been unsuccessful.

He recalled Mr. Paterson discussing his attempts to pass a tax on sugary beverages and legalize gay marriage.

Extremely anticlerical, Zanardelli was forced to resign (1903) when opposition mounted to his attempts to pass divorce legislation.

Public fury has been further fuelled by recent congressional attempts to pass an amnesty bill for campaign finance violations.

Despite several attempts to pass such legislation Italy has no law banning people convicted of minor crimes from parliament.

Earlier attempts to pass a rescue plan for the authority have died within the Senate's narrow and fractious Democratic majority.