Sentence examples for passage means from inspiring English sources

I'm not sure what this highfalutin passage means — has any President ever served four years without realizing that the world isn't perfectible?

By John Cassidy May 21, 2010 The financial-reform bill that the Senate voted through last night is an improvement on House bill from last fall, and its passage means final legislation is virtually inevitable early this summer.

The tenants and their lawyer say the passage means that the building must remain under Mitchell-Lama until 2024, and in June, the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development agreed with them.

Needless to say, I couldn't understand all of it; still can't, to be honest, but this passage means more to me now than it did 25 years ago: "Slippers are designed to be slipped into without help from the hand.

Whether they know it or not, John McCain and Barack Obama seek power in just this ultimately serious sense, although that marvelous passage means one thing to Emersonians of the right and something very different to Emersonians of the left.

The circuitous passage means paying thousands of dollars to coyotes – or people smugglers – to cross 10 countries, where overcrowded fishing boats, mosquito-infested jungles, armed bandits and immigration agents await.

And what did the passage mean to Bolaño?

Opponents of the measure said its passage meant Suffolk was stepping into the unknown.

Much of the argument in the Jones case concerns what that passage meant.

Ultimately, though, the final musical passage — meant to replicate the chilling exchange from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" — fizzled.

Senate Democrats did send out videos on Twitter of Mr. McConnell giving a high five to a colleague after the bill's passage, meant to be the final act of the first session of the 112th Congress.