Sentence examples for necessary to pass a from inspiring English sources

Despite pleading by Mr. Obama, the Senate on Thursday could not produce the 60 votes necessary to pass a bill eliminating $2.5 billion a year of these subsidies.

Why is it necessary to pass a law if you're going to do it anyway?

Democrats dominate both the Assembly and the Senate but do not have the two-thirds majorities necessary to pass a budget without some Republican votes.

He also told me why it was necessary to pass a law exempting Berlusconi from any criminal prosecution while he is Prime Minister.

After cap-and-trade passed the House by a hair in 2009, the Senate was unable to muster the 60 votes necessary to pass a companion bill.

Republicans, some of whose votes are necessary to pass a bill, have unanimously refused to consider broad reforms until after border issues are dealt with; Democrats argue that enforcement must be viewed as one aspect of a comprehensive effort.

As Gabrielle Giffords and her husband said in a statement after the Senate failed to muster the sixty votes necessary to pass such a measure, the elected representatives blatantly "ignored the will of the American people".

This relies on the assumptions that the time necessary to pass through an NM pore is small compared to the time to thermodynamic equilibrium of the cytoplasm.

In order to extract an equivalent amount of oxygen as an air breather, an aquatic animal may find it necessary to pass across the respiratory surfaces a relatively larger volume of the external medium.

This is because it is necessary to pass the entire length of a coil winding through the core aperture each time a single turn is added to the coil.

Election observers said voter turnout was on track to clear the 60 percent threshold necessary to pass the referendum, along with a majority vote.