Sentence examples similar to stopped passage from inspiring English sources

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The plan has never been in real trouble, though, because critics lack the votes to stop passage of the bill.

The posts are fitted with a netting fastened to the ground behind the goal to stop passage of the ball after a successful shot.

While it ultimately failed to stop passage of a law that could impose steep fines on political protesters, it generated wide publicity and illustrated that the majority United Russia party no longer enjoyed unfettered control.

Those concerns have been dismissed as "disinformation" by opponents including Rebecca Tweed, one of the top political lobbyists in Oregon hired by the pro-Nestlé political action committee to snuff out the local revolt and stop passage of Measure 14-55.

Boehner could move relatively quickly to pass the bill in the House, where there are fewer tools opponents can use to stop passage.

Wendy Davis was a Democratic state senator who was little known beyond Texas when she burst onto the national political scene in the summer of 2013, staging a one-woman filibuster to stop passage of a tough anti-abortion law.

And they decided to do this all for the sake of stopping passage of landmark legislation that will bring justice to those who commit violent crimes based on bigotry and prejudice.

The two remaining plants, one of which was at the centre of the array, were left to grow unimpeded.Five weeks after the experiment began, all the plants were covered by bags that allowed carbon dioxide, oxygen and water vapour in and out, but stopped the passage of larger molecules, of the sort a beanstalk might use for signalling.

Guillemeau in a chapter entitled ' Of a painfull and difficult Delivery, with the causes thereof' remarked upon the obstruction of the passage by large quantities of fat as the cause of a difficult labour: 'Her person or body may be the cause therof: as if shee be too fat and full: for in such women I have seene great store of fat come down into their naturall parts, which stopped the passage'.

In use conventional geosynthetic materials have a passive role, e.g. barriers stop the passage of liquids; reinforcement provides tensile resistance and drains provide a passage for water.

In use, conventional geosynthetic materials have a passive role; for example, barriers stop the passage of liquids, reinforcement provides tensile resistance, and drains provide a passage for water.

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