Sentence examples for passed a year from inspiring English sources

"The last farm bill was passed a year after it expired, so this is not unusual.

A law passed a year after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster makes the owner of a rig or vessel responsible for cleaning up a spill.

The law, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, was passed a year after the end of slavery and the Civil War.

He had passed a year in Paris, he said, drinking coffee with New Wave directors and later would edit an English-language edition of Cahiers du Cinéma.

On a footloose outing he passed a year in Paris, drinking coffee and talking with the New Wave directors Mr. Godard and Mr. Truffaut, who were the first to champion auteur theory.

A law passed a year after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster makes "each responsible party for a vessel or a facility from which oil is discharged" liable for cleaning up a spill.

And where Boehner, faced with the prospect that the votes aren't there for the higher number, may have clamped down on moderates to get a budget done at the lower number -- temporarily, at least, just to break the chamber's constipation -- most agree that Boehner would have also ultimately passed a year-end spending bill at the higher level.

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This impact could be external, on progression towards goals like passing a year (cf. Quote 8) or being certified to practice medicine (cf. Quote 3).

It was initially billed as a special session to pass a year-end disaster relief bill.

The Parliament met again the following year, passed a three-year budget, and adjourned again.