Sentence examples for demand passage from inspiring English sources

Mr Obama can demand passage of an immigration-reform bill including a path to citizenship in exchange for a debt-ceiling hike.

Or Congressional Republicans may demand passage of a tax holiday in exchange for extending federal unemployment benefits, which expire at the end of the year.

Members of a coalition representing more than 80 agricultural organizations rallied on Capitol Hill to demand passage of a new farm bill that has been stalled in Congress.

The issue of illegal immigrant students has become pressing because young immigrants have staged increasingly frequent and defiant protests to demand passage this year of the piece of the overhaul that would benefit them.

Romney should demand passage of the high-skilled agenda before the graduation of the class of 2013 next spring produces another crop of international leaders, educated here in America, needlessly forced to return home to compete against us.

Senators also use filibusters to block nonpolitical positions, like the administrator of the General Services Administration — to demand passage of a pet project, out of pique or, most troubling, as part of the Republicans' electoral strategy to block anything Mr. Obama wants.

She said evacuations had begun because Russians in Syria were demanding passage out.

In "True Blood" vampires who can safely feed on a synthetic blood are a militant minority demanding passage of a Vampire Rights Amendment.

Crowds built through the morning as some sat in fields, halted by a razor-wire fence, while others pressed against gates demanding passage.

In fact, it was Congressional Republicans who manufactured a crisis over the debt ceiling in 2010 and demanded passage of a budget bill that mandated the cuts to keep the government from defaulting.

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Violence erupted across Bangladesh on Monday as Islamist fundamentalists demanding passage of an anti-blasphemy law clashed with security forces, leaving a trail of property damage and at least 22 people dead after a second day of unrest.