Sentence examples for over a passage from inspiring English sources

Similarly, sleep is an acquired behavior as well, something that children learn over a passage of time.

He does not read the book in advance and edits as he reads, going over a passage several times if it doesn't sound right to him.

In 2009, Desmond launched a libel action against Bower over a passage about him in another book by Bowers, a biography of Conrad Black.

Going over a passage describing the Western landscape, he suddenly looked up and said, "I'm sorry I can't take you there".

Bush; he knows what it feels like to labor over a passage, only to have a superior hammer the prose into bland P.D.B. style.

In one leaflet, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni and ally of Allawi's, was pictured over a passage that supposedly quoted him saying, "No place will be left for the Shiites to rule Iraq, even for a month".

Directed by Randall Wallace with his previous lack of subtly ("We Were Soldiers"), it opens with a shot of the sky and Penny reading in voice-over a passage about horses from the Book of Job: "Do you give the horse his strength?" (That passage, in a different translation, is also used in Peter Shaffer's play "Equus").

He dispatched his Secretary of State at the time, Warren Christopher, to lay the groundwork for a new relationship, and Mr. Christopher warned that economic reform was akin to "a passage over a ravine".

"Nowadays it is possible to place bets not only on the final outcome of a match, but on particular passages of play, such as how many runs will be scored or wickets taken in an over, or indeed on individual events during the course of an over or passage of play.

Shortage of fuel, however, slowed the pace of Kleist's subsequent southeastward progress through the Caucasian mountains; and, after forcing a passage over the Terek River near Mozdok early in September, he was halted definitively just south of that river.

On stage 13 into Lourdes, which included a passage over the hors catégorie climb Col d'Aubisque, Moncoutié figured into a ten-man breakaway.