Mr Bernanke has weathered his first difficult passage, but it is unlikely to be his last.
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For the first time since passage of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, polling reveals that more Americans support the requirement that all Americans purchase health insurance than those who oppose the measure.
At first the duopoly dismissed Passage, claiming it was insecure and doomed to failure.
In a passage in the first act, for example, Pippin (Matthew James Thomas) liberally sows his oats.
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But after an easy passage through the first phase of the 2010 preliminaries, Morocco have struggled in their final round group, picking up two points from their first three matches.
Only a 14-year-old sensibility could read this passage when Miss Steele first encounters Christian without laughing at the witlessness of the words.
At first it became a way to streamline passage of deficit-reducing measures in the Senate.
In his first term as President, Wilson won passage of several important domestic measures, including the creation of the Federal Reserve System.
Two weeks later, it was announced that the fabled Northwest Passage was navigable for the first time in recorded history, facilitating the new oil frontier.
Chairman of English Nature Baroness Young of Old Scone, herself a Labour peer, said the bill "must not become a battleground for wider matters of town versus country, or simply spoiling tactics which jeopardise the bill's passage and risk sinking the first decent wildlife legislation for 20 years".
The document's passage sets the stage for the first elections to a fully constitutional Iraqi parliament.
You could call it a rite of passage, as necessary as embarrassing first dates and awkward job interviews.
The hosts' best passage of play came in the first half, with Mido making a terrible mess of an inviting chance.
The first in the series, "The Passage, " was an instant bestseller in 2010 winning widespread praise from critics and a worldwide legion of fans.
Traveling from city to city for weeks on end barely making ends meet and living out of an automobile is as much a right of passage for an umpire as their first confrontation with a manager.
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The bill was first proposed in June, but Katrina spurred its passage.
Just after the half-hour mark, the contest sprung to life with a frantic passage of play, Lampard's first-time ball releasing Drogba, whose slight hesitation allowed Gael Givet to produce a brilliant saving tackle.
She said the publication of the Report on Proposals and Policies on Climate Change Targets marked the completion of the first period of "focused action" following the passage of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act.
At a time when discrimination against aboriginal peoples was common, Amundsen was a devoted student of the lessons of the Netsilik Eskimos, who lived in the Canadian arctic, and with whom Amundsen had spent substantial time studying their diets, their clothes, and their survival skills, while on the first successful expedition to discover and traverse the Northwest Passage.
During the first weeks of August the ice has opened the NE passage along the coast of Russia.
The Oyster card touch-and-go system was first introduced in London in 2003 to help speed up passage through Tube gates and bus doors.
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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In a truly remarkable passage of play, Xabi Alonso scored his first effort but the retake, which came because Spanish players encroached into the area, was saved.
In 1639, the transit of Venus (its passage across the Sun's disc) was first observed by astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks.
First it was wealthy Westerners who could afford the time and passage to this remote spot in the Indian Ocean.
But first, we're going to continue our conversation about the passage of Proposition 8 in California last week.
On your first question on the CR, I mean, we obviously support the passage of the three-week CR, precisely because we need the time to negotiate a final CR for fiscal year 2011.
He, his wife and younger sister first went to Ecuador, where they lived for two months before securing passage to Atlanta, where he works as a neurological researcher for the Emory University School of Medicine.
First Phil Dowson went on a barrelling run and then, in a passage of play that epitomised the free-flowing nature of the game, James Simpson-Daniel broke from deep for Gloucester before Saints lock Courtney Lawes stole the ball and fed Bruce Reihana.
At another point, he quotes a long passage from Thomas Jefferson, who established and helped to run the first U.S. patent office.
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