Sentence examples for passage of language from inspiring English sources

Representative Alan Grayson also gets an Honorable Mention as well (with special "strange bedfellows" oak leaf cluster), for joining with Ron Paul to win passage of language in a bill to mandate an audit of the Federal Reserve.

The passage of this language out of the Senate is a major victory for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobbying group that played an advisory role in drafting the language and pushed for its unmodified passage.

Roger Moreton, London It's pretty much impossible to squeeze a verbatim translation of any lengthy passage of foreign-language dialogue into a screen subtitle.

But the anti-Hindi stance remained and hardened with the passage of Official Languages Act of 1963.

Dialogue was also muted during passages of bad language.

The verse rhythms are fluid and flexible, allowing for passages of lyric song, and the language is pithy and vivid: I shan't soon forget Clytemnestra's dismissal of the hated Cassandra as "this sour-faced slut who sucked the sailors raw".

The timing of the release is critical to the passage of the repeal language.

In New York, coalitions of community groups, progressive unions, and faith networks came together this year to secure a raft of impressive victories, from a raise in the state's minimum wage, to the adoption of paid sick days' legislation in New York City to the passage of pro-immigrant language access initiatives in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island.

He was instrumental in the passage of the Official Languages Act of 1969, which stated that English and French were to share equal status in all areas of the government.

The anti-Hindi agitations ensured the passage of the Official Languages Act of 1963 and its amendment in 1967, thus ensuring the continued use of English as an official language of India.

Although there are other lexical diversity indices, including those described by Yu (2009) that measure diversity of language in passages of text, the application of Shannon diversity index for comparison of the diversity of words and phrases in this context seemed more appropriate for comparison of single words or phrases in association with a single stimulus word over time.