Sentence examples for countries to pass from inspiring English sources

It would need a two-thirds majority of the 197 member countries to pass.

The government offended Turks by changing the immigration law to require migrants from poor countries to pass a language test before joining their spouses in Germany.

So officials are keen to have sanctions-enforcement folk from the United Nations involved, to gain more legitimacy.Persuading countries to pass new laws will be relatively easy.

They are particularly concerned about allowing countries to pass off their banking problems to the European Stability Mechanism, the bloc's bailout fund.

That information was then retransmitted by China's state-owned China Telecommunications, effectively forcing data from the United States and other countries to pass through Chinese computer servers.

SMOKE RISING IN THE EAST Singapore was one of the first countries to pass laws restricting public smoking, and they remain some of the world's toughest.

But Colombia is the first country to pass such a law.

Berkeley, California, became the first city in the country to pass a tax on sugary soft drinks.

San Francisco just became the first city in the country to pass legislation making cellphone retailers display radiation levels.

He would not travel outside the country to pass information and did not appear to live a lavish lifestyle.

Britain was the first European country to pass this milestone when Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979.