Sentence examples for rocky passage from inspiring English sources

This is the third year for the WSB and it has been an eventful, costly and rocky passage for the unique tournament, which was to have featured a British team when it started.

Called CRVelocity, the five-month-old project offers these companies an ambitious set of business development services, from computers to consultants, to ease the rocky passage from idea to going concern.

The court, in a 7-to-2 vote, decided to support a previous recommendation from one of its judges, who argued that the full panel of judges should reject the referendum because of irregularities, including the financing of the campaign in support of the referendum and the measure's rocky passage through Congress.

Some experts say the technology has now entered the ''Valley of Death,'' a term that venture capitalists use to describe the rocky passage from early research and development to the scale production needed for a product to be inexpensive enough and available enough for commercial viability.

L'Héritier knew that in open water he would be caught and overwhelmed, and sought instead to escape through the narrow and dangerous channel of the Raz de Sein, a rocky passage between the Île de Sein and the Pointe du Raz: during the Expédition d'Irlande the French ship of the line Séduisant had been wrecked in the Raz de Sein with 680 lives.

On 3 April 1809, Niémen laden with provisions and naval stores for Isle de France sailed from Brest, passing through the rocky passages that sheltered the port during the night and thus avoiding discovery by the regular Inshore Squadron.

It was a rocky transition.

This channel was a narrow, rocky and dangerous passage, and de Galles used corvettes as temporary light ships that shone blue lights and fired fireworks to direct his main fleet through the channel.

With Obama's latest congressional proposal, $3.7 billion to tackle the border crisis, facing a rocky path to passage in Congress, the president is contending with what may well be a Washington stalemate throughout the rest of his presidency, which ends in early 2017.

He was hiking in Franconia Notch, a narrow passage through rocky terrain, which could easily distort the sound of cars, making them seem closer then they were.

Jumping into the water from these rocky cliffs is a rite of passage for boys in the northwest Bronx, a tradition that mixes adolescent swagger, apocryphal lore and just enough danger to keep things interesting.