Sentence examples for limit passed from inspiring English sources

The increase in the debt limit passed, 53 to 42.

Bills to raise the age limit passed the State Assembly the last two years but stalled in the Senate.

"I'm convinced that we can come up with an agreement that gets the debt limit passed and makes some real serious down payment on the commitment to 4 trillion bucks over the next 10 to 12 years," the vice president said, referring to the spending reduction goal of President Obama.

Once, when Raúl and some other engineers made a road trip to Chile, he noticed that in Peru the driver gleefully exceeded the speed limit, passed on the right, even blew through stop signs, but in Chile he was careful not to speed, and was scrupulous about stop signs and railroad crossings.

The bill to increase the speed limit passed the state's House of Representatives with only two votes against it and passed the Senate with no objections at all.

WASHINGTON -- A Republican-backed bill that would ensure America's creditors get paid before its citizens do if the nation reaches its debt limit passed a key committee Thursday, prompting Democrats to accuse the GOP of paving the way for default and, possibly, a government shutdown.

The limits passed in 2007 are set to expire June 30.

If approved, the repeal of term limits, passed by voter initiative in 1994, will be the first enacted by a state legislature.

Moreover, unlike the time limits passed in Texas and some other states, or floating around in Congress, the European limits have exceptions, variously for physical or mental health, fetal anomaly or rape.

Given the quick timetable that Mr. Bloomberg is envisioning — he hopes to have a law changing term limits passed within several weeks — there is little time for opponents to organize.

He is being forced out by term limits passed by voters in 2002 and is now running for a state Senate seat.