Passage
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816 examples of Passage in a sentence
Ultimately, the explanation for the
passage
of far-reaching financial reform can only be the severity of the crisis.
Nepal is in danger of becoming a failed state, which would have major implications for India, with which it has an open border permitting passport-free
passage.
Ironically, the Associated Press, along with many other news outlets, told us in 2007 that the “Arctic is screaming,” and that the Northwest
Passage
was open “for the first time in recorded history.”
Yet the BBC reported in 2000 that the fabled Northwest
Passage
was already without ice.
But they know that an excessively aggressive stance toward the US would undermine their interest in a stable global economy and the safe
passage
of their goods and energy through international sea and air routes.
One Republican senator – Olympia Snowe of Maine – voted for it in committee, but then switched sides, threatened to kill it via filibuster, and voted against its final
passage.
When bad weather shuts down the Lars
passage
between Georgia and Russia – which is also Armenia’s land link to Russia –Armenia suffers.
After NAFTA’s
passage
in 1994, trade between the US and Mexico grew rapidly.
Y2K WorriesCAMBRIDGE: The
passage
to the year 2000 involves more than the usual end-of-century doomsday fears.
That constitution marked the country’s
passage
from dictatorship to democracy and provides the framework for Spain’s rule-of-law system.
Though coverage rates have increased in all states since ACA’s passage, they have improved most in states that chose to expand Medicaid.
The North remains lukewarm on the follow-up dialogue for
passage
of workers, communication, and customs clearance, all of which are essential.
For example, in the late seventeenth century, when conflict between Korea and Japan erupted over the
passage
of Japanese fishermen to Ulleungdo, Tottori-han (one of Japan’s feudal clans) told Japan’s central government that Ulleungdo and Dokdo did not fall within Japanese territory.
Of course, one might argue that, given this, there is little reason to oppose the bill’s
passage.
Moreover, a summit that ends without a detailed written accord may initially seem successful, but with the
passage
of time proves to be anything but.
Extra-regional powers, however, cite the United Nations Convention on the Law of Sea – specifically, the freedom of navigation and the right of innocent
passage
– to justify their involvement.
After a rough
passage
to democracy, a traditionally strong Indonesian state is reasserting itself, forcing jihadists out, and across Mindanao’s porous frontiers.
The many issues that the Union must still resolve won’t disappear merely with the
passage
of time.
From the moment of its passage, the law was criticized heavily.
The International Committee of the Red Cross does negotiate safe
passage
for technicians to inspect and repair damage to water pipes and storage systems in Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine; but each
passage
needs to be negotiated with governments in conflict and rebel commanders – a long and cumbersome process.
The
passage
of time has not made a rescue attempt more likely to succeed.
Cardin-Lugar’s quiet
passage
through the Senate raised hopes that the law heralded higher standards for publicly-listed extractive companies, similar to those being considered in Europe and Canada.
An oft-quoted
passage
provides a fresh, if not exactly new, perspective on Greece’s debt and the best way to address it.
The
passage
concerns sales, divorces, and offerings, and specifies that these acts are legally valid only if a person performs them voluntarily.
There are two preponderant interpretations of the Talmudic
passage.
By blocking the
passage
of budgets, Republican lawmakers caused brief shutdowns of the federal government – an approach that succeeded only in spooking markets.
John F. Kennedy launched what became the Kennedy Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and Bill Clinton helped secure congressional
passage
of NAFTA and the Uruguay Round of trade talks, which had been initiated and negotiated under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.
In 2007, the Northwest
Passage
was ice-free for the first time in living memory.
All of this is part of a learning process intended to reduce the risk that the global economy might again have to go through the kind of difficult
passage
that threatened decades of prosperity and harmed the livelihood of millions of people.
While Ferguson includes several quotes from my past commentaries, he omits a very important passage: “All economies recover in the end.
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