Sentence examples for passage of which from inspiring English sources

The voluminous measure, the passage of which would be a victory for President Bush, was scheduled to be made public on Saturday.

Near the end of his presidency, he pushed hard for additional U.N. sanctions, the passage of which last month precipitated North Korea's third nuclear test.

One of the new president's top priorities will be to implement a stimulus package, the passage of which should be made easier by increased Democratic majorities in Congress.Britain's Gordon Brown won plaudits for his handling of the financial crisis.

That same day, in neighboring New Jersey, the State Assembly passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage — something that Cuomo had fiercely championed in New York last year, and the passage of which brought him great acclaim from liberal and gay rights groups.

(The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, the passage of which had been urged by several Western states, had already required the government to purchase 4.5 million ounces of silver each month.) While he personally backed the gold standard, Cleveland mainly desired that the Democratic Party resist the sway of free-silver advocates.

Nixon favored the Taft-Hartley Act, passage of which had been bitterly opposed by labor unions; Douglas advocated its repeal.

Such passages, of which there are many, beg several questions.

Ang Lee's "Life of Pi", some passages of which are truly magnificent, and Tom Hooper's "Les Misérables" both have avid supporters, but are not to all tastes.

Its subtitle refers to an ancient Japanese warriors' manual called "Hagakure," passages of which fill the screen like intertitles in a silent movie and which also come to us in the gruff, sad voice of Forest Whitaker.

Dyer calls The Colour of Memory "a bit of a mess, though with lyrical passages of which I remain quite fond", while The Search gets a brutal "it sank without trace".

The least muddled opinion was Justice Thomas's separate dissent, certain passages of which (e.g., "In the early days of the Republic, it would have been unthinkable that Congress could prohibit the local cultivation, possession, and consumption of marijuana") could have been written by Justice Cheech or Justice Chong.