Sentence examples for step of passing from inspiring English sources

As a military ruler in the 70's, he took the rare step of passing power to a freely elected successor.

The trip also involved the unusual step of passing through a second country – Oman – before arriving at Hatta, an enclave of Dubai that contains the original village of the Dubaian royal family.

In October the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, the city from which Mr. Savage often broadcasts, took the unusual step of passing a resolution condemning him for the remarks.

On Friday, the Legislature took the extraordinary step of passing a stripped-down version of Gov. George E. Pataki's budget with $4 billion worth of painful cuts, many of them the governor's initiatives.

THIS week Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences took the unprecedented step of passing, by 218 votes to 185, a motion of no confidence in the university's president, Larry Summers.

In Albany, lawmakers took the unusual step of passing tougher sentencing laws, adding three to five years to the minimum sentences for anyone convicted of a violent crime against an on-duty livery-cab, yellow-cab or limousine driver.

An example is her poem "November Night": Listen… With faint dry sound Like steps of passing ghosts, the leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees And fall.

The top 2016 goal of both Ryan and McConnell is to return Congress to "regular order" — the step-by-step process of passing bills through the congressional committees and then each chamber.

Maine took the further step last year of passing its own legislation requiring the aggressive treatment of pain, and California and other states are considering following suit.

Women with faulty mitochondria can already side-step the risk of passing on disease by adopting or having IVF with healthy donor eggs.

But the move comes from Democrats who have become increasingly frustrated with the GOP, which even has stalled bills that have near unanimous support by forcing the 60-vote "cloture" votes at every step in the process of passing a bill on the floor.