About twenty thousand ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year on their way to the Suez Canal.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

It is whispered into your ear with the understanding that you will not pass it on to others.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

President-elect Barack Obama is calling on Congress to pass an economic recovery plan in the next few weeks.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

He learned to get light to go far enough down a glass fiber to pass on signals.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

But the Democrats will need party unity if they try to pass reform legislation on their own.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

The goal of this event is to demand that lawmakers pass new legislation on climate change and clean energy in two thousand ten.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

This means they would pass on the gene for the green protein to their young.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

But they could not agree on which parts of it to pass first.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The rain had stopped during the forenoon and three times we had heard planes coming, seen them pass overhead, watched them go far to the left and heard them bombing on the main highroad...."

VOA: special.2011.06.26

"And so I am calling on Congress to pass these reforms and I am going to sign them into law,"

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

"And so I am calling on Congress to pass these reforms and I am going to sign them into law.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

In his weekly address, Mr.Obama called on Congress to pass reforms in the credit card industry by the end of the month.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

"I did not come here to pass on our problems to the next president or the next generation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

He called on both Democrats and Republicans to overcome their bitter partisan divisions and work together to pass legislation to solve problems.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

Other senators are joining Schumer in an effort to pass legislation to force the Obama administration to get tough with China on the currency issue.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

"The best action we can take on behalf of America's family budget and on behalf of the federal budget is to pass health care reform."

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

In an area where manufacturing jobs have disappeared and the unemployment rate has risen above the national average, Mr.Obama called on Congress to pass a new job-creation bill.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22