Sentence examples for could not pass without from inspiring English sources

This being the Mets, a day could not pass without some sort of dispiriting development.

They said that was their way of proving to Democrats that a rise in the debt limit could not pass without spending cuts attached.

However, despite the Republican majority the bill could not pass without some Democrat votes because not all Republicans support free trade.Mr Clinton failed to persuade members of his own party to support a "Republican" bill.

I was choked with mummies, and I could not pass without putting my face in contact with that of some decayed Egyptian; but as the passage inclined downwards, my own weight helped me on; however, I could not help being covered with bones, legs, arms and heads rolling from above.

Yet despite the first medals beings won – three of which (two gold and one bronze) made a resurgent Australia the tentative leader on the medal table – this is Rio 2016, and the day did not, could not, pass without its fair share of drama to vie with the beaming smiles and hunks of precious metal on display on the winners' podium.

News in austerity Britain is not short on grotesque juxtapositions, but there was one this week that was just so spectacular that it couldn't pass without comment.

In fact, two years ago, a new Democratic Congress put in place congressional rules to restore this principle, but could not pass legislation without the support of the administration.

The sejm was a powerful political institution, and from early 16th century, the Polish king could not pass laws without the approval of that body.

The trucks from the South Hempstead Fire Department, whose firehouse was at the end of his block, could not pass his house without him racing behind on his Big Wheel.

The king could not pass laws himself without the approval of the sejm, this being forbidden by szlachta privilege laws like nihil novi from 1505.

After being informed by a TSA agent that, pursuant to a TSA decree, he could not pass through security without submitting to a full-body scan or a pat-down search, Roberts was subjected to further questioning and eventually escorted out of the airport.