Sentence examples for without the passage from inspiring English sources

Without the passage of comprehensive federal legislation, genetic information can be used to discriminate against individuals.

Without the passage of the Civil Rights Act, we would almost certainly never have elected a black president.

Without the passage in front of them, they wrote what they remembered in a free-form essay for 10 minutes.

The "invincible" tobacco industry had been defeated and a significant public-policy issue decided without the passage of a piece of legislation or the finding of a courtroom verdict.

He said it would be "tragic" if the session ends without the passage of those bills, among them measures to deny the public access to any information the state collects under the aegis of a terrorism investigation.

Moreover, a senior administration official acknowledged that the United States would have had the authority to designate all these companies on its own without the passage of the latest United Nations resolution.

The Labor members of the committee opted for a compatibility model, where new legislation is supposed to be compatible with human rights, yet without restricting the passage of incompatible laws.

Critics of the S.A.T. have long made a kind of parlor game of seeing how many questions on the reading-comprehension section (where a passage is followed by a series of multiple-choice questions about its meaning) can be answered without reading the passage.

I can never think of the star's producer credit without remembering the passage in Hollywood producer Art Linson's memoir, What Just Happened?, where he has to tell an air-head pretty-boy star that his ugly new pseudo-intellectual beard has to be shaved off before filming can commence.

You cannot run for very long without thinking about the passage of time, and if you run the same routes often enough, sooner or later, you are lapped by your own ghost.

And by restricting it to only the most contentious clauses, and to the bill's first reading (when amendments are debated), he allows genuinely anguished MPs to salve their consciences without seriously jeopardising the passage of the bill itself.That may have solved the immediate problem, but the pace of scientific advance makes further clashes inevitable.