Passage
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816 examples of Passage in a sentence
Worse, the decision was submitted to Parliament, where the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s majority guaranteed its prompt passage, without consulting the local political parties.
In the US,
passage
of the so-called Humphrey-Hawkins Act of 1978 gave then-Fed Chairman Paul Volcker the political cover to squeeze double-digit inflation out of the system through a wrenching monetary tightening.
As the vast ice sheet that spans the region has melted, new fossil-fuel reserves and shipping routes have opened up, including the Northern Sea Route (NSR) along Russia’s Siberian coast and the Northwest
Passage
through Canada’s northern archipelago.
Nor has the
passage
of time.
One relates to the following
passage
in the Spanish non-paper: “The Fund could be anchored within the umbrella of the Multiannual Financial Framework below the own resources ceiling but above the expenditure ceiling.”
For the US, the
passage
of the extradition law could well be the last straw.
The likely
passage
of the extradition law will irrevocably tarnish the rule of law in Hong Kong and its attractiveness as an international commercial hub.
They were in a passage, and Kitty wished to enter the next room; but the English governess was there, giving Tanya a lesson.
'How do you do, Constantine Dmitrich?...Especially shapely, plastic, and rich in colour, if one may say so, is the
passage
where you feel the approach of Cordelia, the woman, das ewige Weibliche, [The eternal feminine.]
Only then did Levin recollect the title of the fantasia, and hastened to read the Russian translation of a
passage
from Shakespeare, which was printed on the back.
Turning over the beautifully written, very broad-margined manuscript, Karenin re-read the convincing passage:'I do not want protection for the benefit of private individuals, but for the common good – for the lowest and for the highest classes equally,' he said, looking at Oblonsky over his pince-nez.
'How much harm has been done by a false interpretation of that
passage!
' "I come not to bring peace, but a sword," said Christ,' rejoined Koznyshev, from his own standpoint quoting quite simply, as if it were quite comprehensible, the very
passage
from the gospels that always perplexed Levin more than any other.
Mouquette, who was in front of them, called out in the black
passage
they were dirty brats, and threatened to box their ears if they pinched her.
Fifteen metres higher they came on the first secondary passage, but they had to continue, as the cutting of Maheu and his mates was in the sixth passage, in hell, as they said; every fifteen metres the passages were placed over each other in never-ending succession through this cleft, which scraped back and chest.
He vaguely saw in one
passage
two squatting beasts, a big one and a little one, pushing trains: they were Lydie and Mouquette already at work.
At last all the seams were gradually filled, and the cuttings were in movement at every level and at the end of every
passage.
It was sixty metres from the cutting to the upbrow, and the passage, which the miners in the earth cutting had not yet enlarged, was a mere tube with a very irregular roof swollen by innumerable bosses; at certain spots the laden tram could only just pass; the putter had to flatten himself, to push on his knees, in order not to break his head, and besides this the wood was already bending and yielding.
At one moment it had been necessary to free Maheu, who was gasping, and to remove the planks so that the coal could fall into the
passage.
Red stars disappeared afar at a bend in the
passage.
The
passage
in which he worked had grown so familiar to him that he could open the ventilation doors with his head, and he lowered himself to avoid knocks at the narrow spots.
Only one episode interrupted the monotony of the first fortnight: a slight fever which kept him in bed for forty-eight hours with aching limbs and throbbing head, dreaming in a state of semi-delirium that he was pushing his tram in a
passage
that was so narrow that his body would not pass through.
The chimney or ascending
passage
seemed to him more convenient for climbing up, as if he had melted and could pass through cracks where before he would not have risked a hand.
When they arrived at the chimney passage, they threw themselves into it, tumbling one over the other without troubling about bruises.
Then he cried:"Haven't you got any blood in your veins, by God?" At one moment he would have struck him, and to resist the temptation he rushed about the hall with long strides, venting his fury on the benches through which he made a
passage.
Above, a large brier stopped the entry of the passage, and, as the first ladder had lost some rungs, it was necessary, in order to reach it, to hang on to a root of the mountain ash, and then to take one's chance and drop into the blackness.
It was the end of the old haulage
passage
cut across the bed like a natural grotto.
They were seven hundred and eight metres to the north in the first
passage
of the Désirée seam, which was at a distance of three kilometres from the pit-eye.
The worst was that in this bottom
passage
another cause joined with the neighbourhood of Tartaret to make the heat unbearable.
Fortunately, the
passage
was large and convenient in this Désirée seam, one of the thickest in the district.
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