Sentence examples for won passage from inspiring English sources

Obama also won passage of a health-care reform package that created winners and losers.

Over the years, advocates of the amendment have won passage of a call to convention in 32 states.

Over the following weeks, the nurse practitioner bill won passage in the Legislature, and Governor Beshear signed it into law.

As minister of justice, Trudeau won passage of three unpopular social welfare measures stricter gun-control legislation and reform of the laws regarding abortion and homosexuality.

It is the latest such deal announced since the Obama administration won passage of its sweeping expansion of health care coverage.

The man who began public life advocating for homeless people won passage of a state budget that makes steep cuts to schools, health care and social services.

Three decades later, when President Lyndon B. Johnson won passage of Medicare, most of the Democratic majority in Congress and half of the Republicans backed him.

Mrs. Merkel won passage of the legislation to support Greece despite several members of her party's breaking ranks and voting against it.

President Felipe Calderón of Mexico recently won passage of the world's first comprehensive climate change law, which will drastically cut emissions and build the renewable energy sector.

In the end, Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas, one of the Democrats' most endangered incumbents in 2014, won passage of the provision.

It won passage in the upper house on March 10 after two days of furious debate and the defection of two parties from the governing coalition.