Sentence examples for nervous about passing from inspiring English sources

After GOP lawmakers became nervous about passing legislation that might seem soft on crime, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). declined to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.

"Until oil prices retreat more convincingly, the Fed is likely to remain nervous" about companies passing along those increases to consumers, said Maury Harris, chief economist at UBS Securities in Stamford, Conn. Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, said this week that the Fed was ready to do what was necessary to head off inflation as the economy expands and adds jobs.

"Given the massive hits that Ryan Clark put in this season on Wes Welker and Willis McGahee, can you ask some of the Cardinals' receivers if they are nervous about taking any passes through the middle," asked Critking.

Four or five nervous seconds passed.

Don't worry about it, just think of nice things and the nervous feeling will pass.

They were so nervous about taking Mountain Loop that they passed up a landslide victim fundraiser Sunday to take a test drive.

Browne admitted that POWER remains nervous about the writs that didn't pass.

One hears a cavalier mot about Moss Hart's "nervous breakdown" and a passing reference to one of Coward's own (out of, reportedly, two).

"We were nervous about matchups, so we tried to play pass defense and not let them get a big play".

DeJanique Grant, 8, a third grader at P.S. 123 in Harlem, said she was not nervous about the test because "I know I'm going to pass".

So I was a little nervous about writing prose and having what I'd written pass as a book.