Sentence examples for passing fixes from inspiring English sources

This simplistic division, it might be noted in passing, fixes the sides for an ongoing debate about whether it is best to be a philosopher, a politician, or an epicure (see, e.g., Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics I 5 and X 6 8).

In previous eras, passing fixes was routine, but that's no longer the case: In 2010, Republicans, bitter about the partisan passage of the Affordable Care Act, used the filibuster power to stonewall tweaks that would have allowed healthcare exchanges and individual plans to work better, crippling the program to make it easier to attack.

Johnson, a Times colleague whom I know only in passing, fixed on the 135-mile Badwater run across the burning, unforgiving floor of Death Valley as a test of soul, character and physical endurance.

Public sentiment following the Giffords shooting thus led President Obama to call for improved background checks in purchasing weapons and prompted the US House of Representatives to introduce the, yet to be passed, Fix Gun Checks bill of 2011.

Instead, it fixes the open-source part of Android, before passing the fixes on to device manufacturers such as Samsung.

A little history shows why the "fixes" lawmakers passed actually fix the worst features of the law.

Boehner and Pelosi timed consideration for just days before the deadline for passing a fix.

Let's actually put ourselves in a position to enforce these basic standards by passing the Fix Gun Checks Act (H.R. 1781/S. 436), which is pending in Congress.

The parameter Ct was defined as the fractional cycle number at which the fluorescence generated by passing a fixed threshold above baseline.

To this end they are equipped with a cellular mobile device with an integrated GPS receiver, which passes position fixes obtained by GPS to a central location server.

In 2008, before winning the presidency and needing to pass economic fixes, Democrats found themselves on the deficit hawk team.