Sentence examples for needs for passage from inspiring English sources

If they do so, the United States could not get the nine votes it needs for passage.

In fact, the plan emerging from the negotiating committee could require the acquiescence of House Democrats to secure the 218 votes it needs for passage.

According to CNN, a vote could come on Friday as the White House wins the support the bill needs for passage.

Even if the backers of the bill -- which already has 22 co-sponsors, 4 short of the majority it needs for passage -- can get it through the Council and convince Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to sign it, it remains unclear if it would ever go into effect.

The bill passed 42 to 24, which barely exceeded the 41 votes needed for passage.

Six members supported that plan, one short of the seven votes needed for passage.

That was two votes short of the 60 needed for passage.

The entire Council could take up a term limits bill next Thursday, and 26 votes are needed for passage.

Perhaps significantly, the medical group failed to sway the three senators whose votes were needed for passage.

The Episcopal Church passed it overwhelmingly, but the Lutherans failed by six votes to reach the majority needed for passage.

A bill to legalize slot machines in Maryland won 71 votes -- the exact number needed for passage -- in the House of Delegates.