In 1918, women over 30 were given the right to vote, quickly followed by the passage of a law enabling women to be eligible for election as Members of Parliament at the younger age of 21.
In the whole of his correspondence with his follower and intimate, James Madison, which makes up 2, 000 printed pages, it is impossible to point to any passage showing hostility to religion by either of them.
Republicans in the Senate failed by one vote to win passage of a balanced-budget amendment to the constitution.
That legislation, of course, would need to move through the normal process and ultimately passage by both House and Senate, again subject to a Presidential veto.
At sentencing, it is common for defense counsel and judges alike to invoke the passage of time and intervening efforts by the cooperating witness to acknowledge his or her wrongdoing as factors in favor of a reduced sentence.
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Nadal finally won a game on his serve for 5-1 before breaking Davydenko but in the next game the Russian booked his passage to the final by taking his third match point.
If you thought the 2001 cuts were tough to get through the Congress, consider that, even with the use of reconciliation once again to avoid a filibuster, President Bush only managed to get passage in the Senate by a vote of 51-50 with Vice-President Cheney casting the deciding vote to break the tie.
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He begins to feel more courageous about entering the next dark passage, and his confidence grows little by little as he begins to learn life lessons.
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In 2006, Ms. Powell Jobs backed an effort led by College Track students to collect signatures backing passage of the Dream Act, a federal bill to put an estimated two million young people on a path to citizenship.
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Then, taking advantage of the opening caused by the passage of a truck, Atiq manages to squeeze into a less turbulent side street and hastens, despite his limp, toward a building that stands oddly upright amid an expanse of rubble.
It is part of the Public Health bill which is expected to complete its passage through parliament by the end of June.
Grassley's concern: a bill, headed for passage by the House of Representatives this week, to curb the ever-expanding alternative minimum tax by raising taxes on private equity and hedge fund managers.
Yet South Korea's passage to the last four has been soured by controversy about their wins over Italy and Spain.
Key issues that had some momentum coming out of Newtown but are fiercely opposed by the NRA appear to have a slim chance of passage.
Berhane Aregaye put Eritrea in the lead after four minutes but second half strikes by Allain Ndizeye and Calude Nahimana secured Burundi's passage to the semi final.
Dedicated to Ma Cho Po, goddess of the sea, it was built in the 1840s by early Hokkien immigrants from China in gratitude for safe passage to Singapore.
Mr Besson said he planned to work with the British government on a common strategy "to reinforce controls and make the passage by the (Channel) Tunnel or port as difficult as possible for illegal immigrants".
They say that the federal Fish Passage Center, created by the Northwest Power Planning Council to monitor fish counts and water flows on the Columbia and Snake, has documented a direct correlation between higher flows and salmon survival.
Fortunately, there are other ways to find planets than by detecting transits (the passage of a planetary body across a sun), as Kepler does.
This enthusiasm for Romania's maritime and logistical development is shared by the country's continental partners keen to facilitate the smooth passage of goods across Europe's frontiers and beyond.
Schumer said Monday that an initial timetable called for delivering the text of a bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee by March, and Senate passage by late spring or in the summer.
The GOP hierarchy plans a furious week of lobbying and arm-twisting, including a speech by Gingrich to the Republican Conference, in hopes of winning support for passage.
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On his first trip to Dubai in 1986, Alukkas traced the passage previously made by millions of his fortune-seeking countrymen from coastal Kerala.
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That passage of play was hugely pleasing to the eye but was overshadowed by the next Scarlets attack, which must already be a strong contender for try of the season.
Two House committees have passed a bill drafted by Democrats, but a third -- the Energy and Commerce Committee -- has been delayed by cost concerns raised by the Blue Dogs, who hold enough seats on the panel to block passage of the measure.
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The reforms will reduce, though not eliminate, that deficit, by an amount depending on what concessions have to be made to ease its legislative passage.
With the passage of centuries, though, the biblical scenes were gradually degraded by dampness, to such an extent that in 1888 church authorities hired the painter August Olbers to mend the damage.
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The bipartisan backing of the Volcker Rule by some of the "gray eminences" of finance seems to suggest relatively easy passage of his idea, despite rumblings last week that the U.S. Senate wasn't exactly sanguine.
This seems to be a reaction to Iran's threats to retaliate against any attack by closing the Strait of Hormuz, the passage for roughly 40% of the world's traded oil, and striking at neighbouring countries.
Republicans have responded by saying the president's August timeline for passage is too risky, calling on lawmakers to take more time to research the impact of the bills.
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