Passage
in sentence
816 examples of Passage in a sentence
So let us translate that IMF
passage
into transparent English:“The world economy has become less risky as it has recovered from recession, and as banks and households have reduced their debts.
But one that has gained less attention than others was the
passage
last December of legislation to reform the International Monetary Fund, after five years of obstruction by the US Congress.
Smith described the European discoveries of the sea
passage
to Asia (around the southern tip of Africa) and the Americas as the two greatest events in world history.
The
passage
of the Dodd-Frank Act by Congress represents a significant milestone in the reform of the US financial sector.
As Dennis Kelleher, the president of the advocacy group Better Markets, documented in recent congressional testimony, two years after the
passage
of the Dodd-Frank legislation, the US banking system continues to fight hard – and effectively – to undermine meaningful reform.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...."The truly revolutionary realization in that
passage
from America’s Declaration of Independence is contained not so much in the words "truths" or "self-evident" or "created equal" or any of the rest: rather, it's in the calm self-certainty of those first two words: "We hold...."Note how the text doesn’t launch out with "It is manifestly self-evident that...," or any similar construction, as logic might dictate.
And, in fact, two of the Obama administration’s recent wins – the
passage
of so-called trade promotion authority (fast-track negotiating authority to conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership) and the reauthorization of the small but vital Export-Import Bank – were the result of dedicated outreach, education, and, yes, cajoling of lawmakers.
For example, a year after Romania decriminalized abortion in 1990, maternal deaths fell by half, while in South Africa, deaths plummeted 91% in the first four years after
passage
of the 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act.
The irony is that the US Senate’s failure to ratify UNCLOS means that the US cannot take China to ITLOS over its efforts to convert reefs into islands and claim exclusion zones that could interfere with the right of free
passage
– a major US interest.
After the
passage
of Brexit, the same journal warned, “Britain is sailing into a storm with no one at the wheel.”
This
passage
is a famous statement of the utility of self-interest.
Ultimately, Obama, bolstered by polls endorsing his plan, won partial
passage
of two AJA policies: a one-third cut in employees’ payroll taxes (he had proposed one-half), and an extension of unemployment benefits by about 60% of what he had recommended.
And, while Romney says that he would open new foreign markets, Obama has been doing just that, winning
passage
of three major trade agreements and increasing federal support for US exports, which have been growing nearly twice as fast as they did during the recovery from the 2001 recession.
For example, in Syria, women have negotiated ceasefires to allow the
passage
of humanitarian aid, worked in field hospitals and schools, distributed food and medicine, and documented human-rights violations.
With the
passage
of time, the real heroes of the Auschwitz commemorations are becoming ever fewer.
For the United States,
passage
into this world came suddenly, less than a month ago.
The European Parliament elections allow us to look at ourselves in the mirror and take stock of the
passage
of time.
She would now suffer yet more violence, unless she managed to secure safe
passage
away from her home.
A popular answer is simply the
passage
of time.
As it showed during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, America has the military means to ensure safe
passage
through the Strait of Hormuz: its Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain.
In the near term, the new law’s
passage
will only escalate tensions in the city, as demonstrated by a recent clash between protesters and Hong Kong police.
Even if the bond prices fell, bondholders would still get free
passage.
These local and folk practices encompass everything from spiritual healing to rites of passage, fortune telling, and preparations for love, death, and war.
To win political support for AB5’s passage, lawmakers exempted many types of independent contractors – such as doctors, dentists, and real-estate agents – on the grounds that they set their own compensation rates, communicate directly with their customers, and earn at least twice the minimum wage.
Several states – including New York, Illinois, Oregon, and Washington – are considering legislation resembling AB5, and many Democratic presidential candidates have hailed AB5’s passage, signaling that they would support its application nationally.
It continued with the stripping of Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy (a clear signal that constitutional assurances were also up for grabs and that federalism could be overridden) and the
passage
of the amendment to the Citizenship Act (a direct challenge to the secular, non-religious assumptions of the Constitution).
North Korea could use the
passage
of time to increase the number of nuclear weapons in its arsenal and make some improvements to its warheads and delivery systems without overt testing.
As both economies started to show visible signs of distress, there was new optimism that reason would finally prevail, even in the face of an escalating weaponization of policy by the United States: threatened capital controls, rumored delisting of Chinese companies whose shares trade on American stock exchanges, new visa restrictions, a sharp expansion of blacklisted Chinese firms on the dreaded Entity List, and talk of congressional
passage
of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019.
The back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, on the first weekend of August are widely being viewed as the straw that will break the back of the US gun lobby, particularly the National Rifle Association (NRA), which has long stood in the way of congressional
passage
of gun-control measures.
A corridor would be created between Palestinian lands – Clinton called it a “permanent safe passage” – making the new state contiguous.
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