Sentence examples for passage something from inspiring English sources

Like generations of girls, Ms. Ocasio, 17, regards prom night as a rite of passage, something akin to a coming-out party.

When children are harassed, victimised and attacked by other children, it's just a "rite of passage", something to be borne in silence or dealt with in therapy decades later.

"Some people say that F.G.M./C. is a rite of passage — something families do to help prepare girls for adulthood or marriage," he said in a White House statement.

In filing his suit, Mr. Snyder, who opposes casinos, said that the language had unfairly tilted the measure toward passage, something borne out by a recent Siena College poll showing that support for it increased by nine percentage points when the respondents were read the ballot abstract citing jobs, aid to schools and lower taxes that could result from opening the casinos.

I waited for a good two months for people to open the door and say, 'We made a mistake.' At the same time, because you're watching the people you grew up with going through prison, there is a part of you that feels it is a rite of passage; something you have to go through to get respect from your peers.

"They have become a generational right of passage, something that a majority of college students do, to the point that now we have normalized a culture of unpaid work".

"It's the passage of something temporary to something that is implanted and takes root".

And it is time to bring them home, to take them across the passage from something served to you to something you serve, wherever you may be serving it.

The tax cut is also the ultimate test of whether Mr. Bush can translate his personal charm and ambiguous mandate into the passage of something legislatively significant and politically difficult -- something that would represent a triumph of Republican over Democratic orthodoxy.

A handbag, which we understood perfectly well before this passage, becomes something we understand less.

No, no, it's a stage and a rite of passage and something that will make you stronger.