Recently, for example, they were instrumental in the passage of legislation that mandates five percent federal contracting set asides for women-owned businesses.
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And all of this must culminate in the passage of comprehensive legislation that will finally make renewable energy the profitable kind of energy in America.
Prindiville was involved in the passage of the Maine EPR electronics recycling law, and has been working on bringing EPR to the United States since 2003.
As Mojon explains it, what differentiates their creations from the rest of the watchmaking pack, beyond flexing their technical muscles, is that they strive to convey the sentiments inherent in the passage of time.
It had been years since Selma and Montgomery, since Dr. King had told America of his dream -- all of it culminating in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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Sanjay Bapat, founder of IndianNGOs.com, says NGOs played a big role in the passage of the Right to Information Act, which lets citizens find out how members of parliament are spending taxpayer funds, among other things.
But the Pentagon later denied the report, with spokesman George Little saying it would be "inaccurate to suggest that the North Korean regime has fully tested, developed or demonstrated the kinds of nuclear capabilities referenced in the passage".
Petty Officer Crystal Norman, a Coast Guard spokeswoman, told CNN that most of the Haitians were taken aboard Coast Guard cutters from boats in the Windward Passage, the strait separating Haiti from Cuba.
They were indulging in the rite of passage of dancing around the statue in the middle of the square and getting squiffy.
Although it stalled in the Senate, the industry continues to promote passage in the next Congress.
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Hardly anyone noticed it, even as it stayed in the bill through passage in March 2010.
In November, 16 kayakers had to be rescued from strong tides off Portland Bill after they got into difficulty in the inshore passage.
Several Democratic leaders, choosing to emphasize the greater savings over the higher cost contained in the latest estimate, said the CBO figures would help secure the 216 votes needed for the bill to win passage in the House.
There's nothing new about any of this -- the wild party is firmly entrenched in youths' rites of passage in the movies and in high school lore across the land.
The content of the bill had been agreed by the executive in the summer and its passage marked another essential step in the process for devolving the powers.
Advocates claim it would discipline the wilder fringes in both camps and smooth the passage of reform legislation in both houses of parliament.
The first gamble can certainly claim some successes, notably the removal of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and the passage, across southern Europe, of reforms that would recently have seemed unthinkable.
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In 2010, Obama negotiated a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the Russians and won its passage in the Senate.
The first in the series, "The Passage, " was an instant bestseller in 2010 winning widespread praise from critics and a worldwide legion of fans.
Privately-funded efforts to save this regal bird from extinction had been underway for some time at that point, and the federal government began its own efforts in 1966 with the passage of the Endangered Species Preservation Act, the precursor to the more comprehensive Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973.
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Some of the fiscal issues that may have weighed on the economy in the fourth quarter of 2012 were resolved with the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act in early January, which provided more than 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses with the certainty that their income taxes will not rise.
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Verne's heroes - the eccentric Professor Lidenbrock and his long-suffering nephew, Axel - discover a clue encrypted in an old Icelandic manuscript that sends them to the island in search of a passage to the core of the planet.
Adam Smith suggested the invisible hand in an otherwise obscure passage in his Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776.
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An aide said Mr. Cuomo has been focused above all in recent months on the passage of a new state budget and tougher gun-control laws in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
The winner of Saturday's clash in Cardiff is likely to top Pool B and theoretically earn an easier passage in the quarter-finals.
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While ministers had threatened to use the Parliament Act to push the age of consent measure through the Lords, the same act cannot be used to repeal Section 28 because the legislation began its current parliamentary passage in the upper house.
In fact, PANGAEA had just arrived in Annapolis after completing a traverse of the Northwest Passage from the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, and is on her way to Florida to explore the Everglades before an expedition next year far up the Amazon River.
If the Supreme Court declines review, same-sex couples would again be permitted to marry in California, as was the case for several months in 2008, prior to the passage of Prop. 8.
It was introduced in the 2010-12 session of Parliament and a carry over motion - enabling it to complete its passage in the current session - was passed on 6 February 2012.
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