Sentence examples for benefits pass from inspiring English sources

The speech highlighted Obama's willingness to act on his own, but the more important theme was to call for action in vital areas where Republicans are standing in the way of the American majority: Raise the minimum wage; extend jobless benefits; pass equal pay for women, paid family leave, immigration reform, universal pre-K.

Arizona's deadline for continuing the federal benefits passed on June 11, though they could be reinstated retroactively.

A bill that would strip many Russians of social benefits passed a second reading in the lower house of Parliament.

A report looking into the impact of the social benefits – passed into law on Thursday – will be evaluated next week.

But the point here is that the banks themselves are benefiting from the cut in the Bank of England base rate, and we want to see those benefits passed on.

In fact, the deep recession would have been much deeper and the weak recovery much weaker but for past government support, including the Obama stimulus and the payroll tax cuts and extended jobless benefits passed in 2010 and 2011.

The budget office also said a Republican proposal for Medicare drug benefits passed by the House last year would cost $157 billion in the coming decade, about the same as the amount proposed by President Bush in February.

Mr. Bush and his Republican allies have waged a war based on a misrepresented threat, cut veterans' benefits, passed the buck over the "Mission Accomplished" banner, and so on.

Mr. Brown made his proposal at a time when pension costs — exploding under the twin burdens of generous benefits passed by the Legislature during more prosperous times and the collapse of pension investments in the stock market — have posed one of the greatest threats to California's fiscal stability.

But they made clear that the president would support efforts in Congress to speed the schedule under which the tax cut would be phased in, and its benefits passed along to individuals, despite doubts among economists including Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, that such a move would help the economy in time to make a difference in this slowdown.

He added: "Falling oil prices is going to benefit a lot of businesses and a lot of countries and we want to see those benefits passed through in all the ways they can be".