Sentence examples for up passage from inspiring English sources

The Senate is speeding up passage of a free-trade agreement with Jordan.

Until Thursday, a handful of Democratic senators -- all of them acting anonymously -- had held up passage of the measure, but none had publicly opposed it.

The allocations for aid to New York and improving domestic security had held up passage of the far-reaching $317.5 billion defense legislation for days.

The unanimous move came after a compromise that allowed Britain — which held up passage of the package last week during a 16-hour marathon meeting — to impose tougher standards than the international minimum.

"Koizumi will use Bush's visit to speed up passage of his deflation package, but this country is paralyzed because people don't understand what is going on yet," said Masaru Tamamoto, a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute.

Last May, Mr. Pataki held up passage of the state budget until Assembly Democrats agreed to a law that limited the amount of debt the state could carry, capping it at 4percentt of taxpayers' income.

Like opening up passages of time.

The obvious next step is to let people vote up passages, or automatically rank them based on how many times they have been shared.

Soon after receiving the statement, Matthews published an article about the Second Front and its "tough, uneducated young American" leader, citing a cleaned-up passage from Morgan's letter.

Mr. Kosuth's contribution, "O.&A./F D! (TO I.K. AND G.F .," from 1987, is, sorry to say, the most viewer-proof, a linguistic conundrum out of Freud through Duchamp, in which a large, mundane photograph of a hall doorway meant as a metaphor for the entrance to the Sigmund Freud Museum is set against a blown-up passage from Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams".

What's interesting to me, in this newly quickened-up passage of time that is life, is that I'd have sworn those Hill/Thomas hearings happened when I was in high school.