Sentence examples for passed a string from inspiring English sources

In the past few weeks it has passed a string of measures to enforce Islamist rules.

En route to lunch with King Abdullah II of Jordan, Mrs. Clinton's motorcade passed a string of settlements on the rocky hilltops of the West Bank.

As a whole, its presence wasn't all that obvious, but as my taxi passed a string of half-finished mansions on the outskirts of town, my driver casually explained that their owners had recently been thrown in jail.

When these broke down, the U.S. passed a string of Agricultural Adjustment Acts during the 1930s that allowed the U.S. to limit quantities for production in order to keep commodity prices at their high levels during the bounty years of 1910-14.

In November Ms Park made a rare direct appeal to parliament to pass a string of bills aimed at revitalising the economy.

Under such a plan, appropriators could finance the government without the need to pass a string of short-term spending agreements like those that nearly led to a government shutdown this year.

You can pass a string representing a logical group of radio buttons; if you do, this radio button will be internally managed so that at most one radio button from that group will be checked at any given time.

Our verdict on his first anniversary in early May was that his presidency had, thus far, been a disappointment.Yet in recent weeks Mr Sarkozy's government has managed to pass a string of reforms and to do so without running into that traditional bugbear of French presidents, mass protests in the streets.

Our bus, clearly in no hurry, rumbled westward along streets of low-slung storefronts until we'd left the capital; it traversed the neighboring city of Karaj, passing a string of industrial plants, and reached a clearing in the midst of sprawl.

So who was I to deny Yehudi the joys of passing a string through his nose and mouth if it enabled him to deal with the DNA he got at birth?

So while there may be a few symbolic, far-reaching legislative proposals at first, perhaps the best that a GOP-controlled Congress can hope for is to pass a string of relatively modest measures that could garner enough Democratic votes to avoid a filibuster.