Sentence examples for ordinary passage of from inspiring English sources

In other words, our pleasure in beauty in a sense lifts us out of the ordinary passage of time.

• Yes, I know: it sounds like a perfectly ordinary exchange after the passage of a piece of legislation.

Helped by a mineral-resources boom over the past decade, even the passage of ordinary legislation nowadays often requires payouts.The latest Supreme Court decision is particularly dangerous because parliament was dissolved last week.

No matter: with the United Nations' economic embargo now in its eighth year, with the government and the UN gearing up for yet another row over weapons inspections, and with international efforts to ease the plight of ordinary Iraqis getting nowhere, the passage of time seems pretty meaningless in Iraq.

It's a passage of profound respect for ordinary work that's ordinarily overlooked, taken for granted, or even looked down upon.

As we commemorate the acts of heroism and courage of ordinary men, women and children, resulting in the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, we call upon every policymaker to advocate restoration of Section V of this Act.

Ordinary rites of passage, like going to a dance or sampling a margarita, turn into intrigue and scandal where First Daughters are concerned.

Private and public colleges alike have begun offering a wide range of services and activities intended to help students negotiate what used to be considered the ordinary rites of passage: homesickness, sophomore existential angst, romantic relationships.

The passage of time makes extraordinary events feel ordinary.

A-theorists say that our ordinary picture of the world as tensed reflects the world as it really is: the passage of time is an objective fact.

Passage of charged subatomic particles is recorded in the emulsion in the same way that ordinary black and white photographic film records a picture.