Sentence examples for measures has passed from inspiring English sources

Such proposals would produce the usual protests, but the time for half measures has passed.

"The time for half measures has passed," lead vocalist Dean Tzenos tells THUMP of the track.

The time for preventive measures has passed, it is now time for emergency action.

Although ratification measures have passed the Virginia Senate, they have died in committee in the House.

The backpacker bills and associated savings measures have passed the lower house, but remain under investigation by a Senate committee.

Even if the measures had passed, she said, they would not have taken effect in time to affect him personally.

Similar measures have passed the House twice, and President Obama has said he would sign the bill into law.

Like measures have passed in California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Alaska, Maine and the District of Columbia, though they have gone into effect in the face of federal drug laws.

Since the election, $21bn of the Coalition's $40bn of unlegislated "zombie" budget measures have passed parliament, some with Labor support, but others are stubbornly resisted by the opposition.

Aligned against them were Iraq, Syria, Libya, the PLO and several countries formerly in the moderate camp who said that the time for halfway measures had passed.

Similar ballot measures have passed in Arizona, Washington state and Michigan, where a federal appellate court is reviewing the law's constitutionality.