Sentence examples similar to passed a term from inspiring English sources

When Idaho's voters passed a term-limit statute, their legislature repealed it.

Only Nebraska has passed a term-limits law in the last six years.

The amendment, an apparently unique attempt to influence the way the state's congressmen vote, instructs all Missouri candidates for Congress to try to pass a term-limits amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Congress passed a late-term-abortion ban in 2003.

The House instead passed a short-term measure which the Senate rejected, saying it was too limited.

Just before the August recess, the House instead passed a short-term $383 million package of loans and grants for livestock producers and a limited number of farmers.

Pushed by the airline lobby, House Republicans passed a long-term F.A.A. reauthorization in April that would have undone the rule change.

On Wednesday, the House passed a short-term transportation bill that included a provision that would pave the way for the construction of the next stage of the oil pipeline, a measure that Mr. Obama has said he would veto.

The House also passed a long-term F.A.A. bill that included a measure to repeal a rule of the National Mediation Board, which oversees union and labor issues in the airline and railroad industries.

The shutdown occurred after Republicans passed a short-term spending bill but included a measure canceling a reduction in Medicare premiums, over President Clinton's threat of a veto.

On Friday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a short-term spending plan that would continue funding government operations until mid-December while withholding money for implementing the health law.