Sentence examples for barely approved from inspiring English sources

On 16 June, the bill was just barely approved with a 217-203 vote in the House.

These reforms were barely approved by the legislature amid warnings of disaster: huge budget deficits, legions of factory workers and farmers who would lose out to foreign competition.

A second referendum on the creation of a Welsh assembly, held under the new Labour government of Tony Blair, was barely approved (50.3percentt) on September 18 , 1997

This bill was barely approved in 2012 and it doesn't look like it can win a vote in the new Congress.

John Haley, who was appointed to succeed Mr. Wilson as transportation commissioner, had barely approved the document when there was a major change.

Two years ago, Ford workers barely approved a series of cuts in health care benefits that G.M. workers voted to accept.

Don't worry if they barely approve.

Since breastfeeding my own children and then subsequently realizing that the early building blocks of my own life were barely FDA approved, I've often wondered just how safe soy protein isolate and other formula additives really are.

She made Thinx infamous with an ad campaign in New York City subways that used visuals of grapefruit and raw egg to represent menstruation; it barely got approved by the M.T.A. (More recently, after the birth of her son, she made a splash at Burning Man by pumping breast milk and sharing it with fellow-festivalgoers).

And Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican in Democratic-leaning Wisconsin, has managed to maintain a net positive job approval rating, but just barely: 50 percent approve to 46 percent disapprove.

That night, as a barely elected government approved the effective privatisation of the British university system, thousands of students and school pupils were kettled for hours in the freezing cold, some hospitalised with broken bones and head injuries after being charged by police horses.