Sentence examples for expected passage from inspiring English sources

Republican strategists had expected passage to be easier in the Senate.

The Senate version cleared a crucial procedural hurdle on Thursday on the way to expected passage early next week.

Speaking after meeting Mr. Pastrana, Mr. Lott said he strongly supported the aid and expected passage next month or in June.

Diplomats from the resolution's three co-sponsors, Britain, France and the United States, said they expected passage on Monday and did not foresee a veto from either China or Russia, the two countries most reluctant to punish Syria.

Yet the widely expected passage of the the USA Freedom Act later this week will mark a more permanent victory for advocates of surveillance reform: a ban on the NSA hoovering up the telephone records of American citizens.

But Mr. Boehner offered some hope that the budget process — which begins this week with the expected passage by the House of a spending measure, known as a continuing resolution, to keep the government operating for the rest of the year — could still end in a broad agreement that lowers the deficit, overhauls the tax code and undoes at least some of the automatic spending cuts.

Despite the Senate Republicans' campaign agenda of nay-saying and filibuster, you would think taxpayers have a right to expect passage of a life-and-death measure to protect the nation's coal miners.

Those provisions are now part of the broader bill sponsored by Paul S. Sarbanes, Democrat of Maryland, which could be voted on as soon as Monday, with lawmakers in both parties expecting passage by a wide margin.

I was fully expecting Passage to Juneau to contain a measure of self-discovery, but assumed Raban's implication that he'd find himself fielding curveballs was a bit of forgivable dramatisation, and that any revelations would be of the mildest kind.

They said they expected that passage in Mississippi would have built support for similar laws in other states.

The Peaceful Assembly Act must still be approved by the upper house, the Senate, before it takes effect, but analysts said that they expected easy passage because the Senate was dominated by government members.