Sentence examples for passage fell from inspiring English sources

The passage fell and crushed them".

MEXICO CITY — A plan for the ousted Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, to leave the country for Mexico ran aground late Wednesday when negotiations over his safe passage fell apart, the leader and the Mexican authorities said.

The act made clear that contracts negotiated during a six-month "twilight period" after the act's passage fell under its provisions if they included language saying that they had been made under the terms of the act.

But in 40 years' time, it should be accessible every year, creating commercial tensions between Canada and the US given that Canada claims that the passage falls under its sovereignty whilst the US insists it is an international shipping route.

Some of the work's loveliest passages fell to the cello, and Nicholas Canellakis rose to the occasion.

Students tend to pick answers which sound the most complex or sophisticated and will sometimes favor one answer before they refer back to the passage, subsequently falling victim to confirmation bias when they see a part of the passage germane to the choice they selected arbitrarily.

And between some beautifully sustained flights of eloquence, there is the occasional passage that falls with an ear-bruising clunk.

Unreformed, the existing QMV rules give a passage probability of 7.8% for a Union of 15 members; in an EU of 27, again under existing QMV rules, the passage probability falls to 2.5%.

Elton has masses of fun here, unleashing his disdain for moneyed posh boys who roger dead farm animals as a rite of passage and fall into high-powered jobs by dint of their birth.

Further, this theory would seem to entail that not all minds are conscious (or that not all thoughts are conscious)—Spinoza suggests that infants are not conscious in 5p6s and 5p35s Despite these advantages, this initial understanding of this passage has fallen under heavy fire.

Joanne Carson is perfectly content to give Truman Capote credit for writing the most beautiful moment of her never-finished memoir, a passage about falling in love with the man who would become king of late-night television.