Sentence examples for securing passage from inspiring English sources

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

Throngs of contrabands reportedly amassed in the streets around the fort and on the wharf of nearby Hampton, Va., in hopes of securing passage.

Throughout the 1990s Tito negotiated with space agencies in Moscow before securing passage on a 2001 mission to the space station Mir at the cost of $20 million.

That, however, tore a hole in his party.The prime minister appears to have bet that securing passage of the tax would convince the public of his fiscal responsibility and decisive leadership.

Mr. Stern also said that the Obama administration remained committed to securing passage of comprehensive energy and climate change legislation to meet its own promises to reduce global warming emissions by about 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.

Representative Bill Thomas of California, the architect of the House Republican bill, said Republicans would push it through the Ways and Means Committee next week, with a view to securing passage by the full House by the July 4 recess.

It secured passage of the Dream Act.

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

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

But he feared that Republican leaders would secure passage by attaching it to another bill.

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