Sentence examples for bring about passage from inspiring English sources

The speech and the march helped bring about passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

He brought law enforcement groups around to back legislation requiring that homicide interrogations be taped and helped bring about passage of the state's first racial-profiling law.

The next year, a month after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Lott went to work as a top aide to one of the staunchest segregationists in Congress -- a powerful Mississippi lawmaker who two journalists say greeted Dr. King's death by grumbling that it would probably bring about passage of a fair housing bill.

He began last month with a climate deal with China and a bold immigration order, then in the last two weeks helped bring about passage of a major spending bill, saw a blitz of judicial appointees through the Senate and reversed half a century of U.S. policy toward Cuba.

Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906) and Samuel Hopkins Adams's The Great American Fraud (1906), combined with the work of Harvey W. Wiley and U.S. Senator Albert J. Beveridge, brought about passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.

It refused, for example, to advertise patent medicines, and its subsequent muckraking campaign against those products helped bring about the passage of the U.S. Federal Food and Drugs Act in 1906.

In opposition after 1765, Grenville castigated politicians opposed to American taxation and helped to bring about the passage of the Townshend Acts of 1767, which renewed tension between Britain and the colonies.

The party won its first seat in Parliament in a by-election in 1966, and its policies helped to bring about the passage of the Welsh Language Act of 1967 and the establishment of the Welsh Development Agency in 1974.

With peaceful assembly, freedom of speech and televised coverage, Dr. Martin Luther King and civil rights supporters helped to bring about the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Their deaths galvanized the Civil Rights Movement, helped bring about the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and have been the subject of several films, most notably Mississippi Burning.

But because of the relative lack of public pressure, activists who helped bring about the law's passage say its impact has so far been small.