Sentence examples for secured passage of from inspiring English sources

It secured passage of the Dream Act.

The following year he secured passage of the antiunion Trade Disputes Act.

Republicans note the confrontational way in which Democrats secured passage of the health-care bill, via a devious parliamentary manoeuvre.

He secured passage of a prohibition amendment to the state constitution (1880), the first such constitutional ban in history.

In 1909 he secured passage of the first British town-planning statute, and in 1911 he was the principal conciliator in a London dock and transport strike.

In 1874 an alliance of the new democratic party and the dominant radical-liberal groups secured passage of a revised federal constitution.

But Mr. Abe has pushed for a much broader interpretation, and two years ago he helped secure passage of security legislation that authorized overseas combat missions by the military in the name of "collective self-defense" and alongside allied troops.

Their goal is to quietly secure passage of the first immigration overhaul in a quarter century.

Although Howard succeeded in securing passage of the bill, the poll tax was immensely unpopular.

Two years later, she led the effort to secure passage of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Gould was able to bribe legislators in Albany to secure passage of a bill legalizing what they had done.