Sentence examples for passed without opposition from inspiring English sources

Last year, the legislature in Massachusetts, which had some of the country's most antiquated alimony laws, passed without opposition a measure to rewrite the laws and make them more equitable, following the recommendations of a special commission.

The committee said the adviser should have this power in a report published in March last year and MPs have backed the proposal in a Commons motion passed without opposition.

The high costs of many prescription drugs continue to trouble many voters, particularly the elderly, and Mr. DiFrancesco's proposal to expand an existing state subsidy program, not surprisingly, passed without opposition.

When the vote eventually came about on the broad question of whether to impose undergraduate tuition, this person said, it passed by a significant margin; when the board later voted on a specific tuition plan, it passed without opposition, and only a few abstentions.

The two most recent administrations, Clinton and Bush II, didn't even bother to enforce our own sanctions against Iran, opting to issue waivers to every foreign oil company that ran afoul of the Iran Sanctions Act, legislation Congress passed without opposition in 1996.

The post still needs to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, but it is expected to pass without opposition.

We want to control that too, here along the border". The ordinance will not pass without opposition from the pet trade industry.

Instead it's done a deal with opposition MPs behind closed doors so that an 'emergency' bill will be passed without serious opposition — and without proper scrutiny.

Civil liberty and human rights groups expressed profound disappointment that the bill passed without tougher opposition, but said their battle was far from over.

Construction of a business/industrial park on the former Union Carbide Co. site is expected to begin in July, after a city deadline for public protests passed last week without opposition.

Equally, however, an entire match can pass without the opposition hearing a dicky bird from either of them and it should encourage all England supporters that Lescott and Terry are playing well enough, and working hard enough, right now to keep the Italian strikers in their pockets for the entire 90 minutes.