Sentence examples for passed thankfully from inspiring English sources

MacDonald thinks "the ugly beige era has passed (thankfully)." However, she adds that sustainability must be better communicated so it's not considered a compromise.

The bill was brought to a vote last week by a fast-track method and needed a two-thirds majority to pass; thankfully it didn't.

Any threat to the public has thankfully passed".

This year's election thankfully passed off peaceably, but those responsible for previous outbreaks in 1992 and 1997 evaded justice with impunity.

The days when British coal miners died in large numbers in underground pit disasters and from mining-related disease have thankfully passed.

Lately, she says, she has toyed with the notion of jacking it in and returning to photography, but that moment has, thankfully, passed.

While many of the restaurants that gave fusion a bad reputation have thankfully passed on, the notion of blending the techniques and ingredients of multiple cultures pervades restaurants today.

That said, the Welsh contingent inside the Millennium Stadium had the inviting alternative of fellow veteran countryman Craig Bellamy, whose pre-match pleas were answered as a rendition of "God Save the Queen" thankfully passed without incident.

That time has thankfully passed.

Though the US joined Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and China in voting against condemning the death penalty to punish blasphemy, adultery - and consensual same-sex relations, the ban thankfully passed.

We have (thankfully) passed the awkward point in time where flashing your money on Facebook or Myspace was a ubiquitous phenomenon, but the present doesn't erase embarrassing history.