Congressional leaders were quick to try and make political hay out of passage of the bill.
Instead, the Tory's leader in the House, Lord Cranborne, privately told the government his backbenchers would use trench warfare tactics to drag out the passage of the bill through the Lords and so secret negotiations began.
And the second question I would have is, why didn't you guys nominate a director sooner when -- before they sent this letter and before when you maybe had a little more momentum coming out of passage?
The British say they will not give him safe passage out of the embassy.
And for those particles that make it past the caesium iodide, a huge electromagnet tracks their passage out of the detector.
Amongst their demands in exchange for freeing the British hostages were a safe passage out of Sierra Leone and an education abroad.
The latest seems to be that Gadhafi had offered to negotiate stepping down in return for a guarantee of safe passage out of the country.
The UK government has said it will not allow him safe passage out of the country to fly to Ecuador, while the Swedish foreign ministry insisted the sole reason they want Mr Assange extradited is so the allegations against him can be properly investigated.
The beach for most Australians is not just a place to cool off on a hot day, it is a place for the tentative dips of the toes in the shallows of early childhood and a place where teenage rites of passage played out.
Right before this, Dan Pfeiffer put out a statement urging the passage of the DISCLOSE Act.
Last year, for example, the state had to toss out questions related to a passage that was widely ridiculed for being confusing.
Study after study has shown that young people are delaying the traditional rite of passage of launching out on their own and starting families.
As at last the 20th century begins to turn, perhaps we shall see Asia mark these last rites of passage by ringing out the new, for a change, and ringing in the old.
In the Senate, 60 votes out of 100 are needed to guarantee passage.
The Sheriff and one of his men hurried down the narrow passage between the bunks and out the other side.
Reading on, he came to a passage about reindeer being wiped out on St Matthew Island in the Bering Sea.
Maybe she was mouthing out the words of a particularly difficult passage.
The expectation of the 2001 Congress was that government, with the benefit of knowing how things turned out over the ten years following initial passage, would make wise decisions as to whether or not the cuts were still judicious in light of the current circumstances.
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Nothing has even made it out of committee yet, so the actual passage of a patent reform bill still seems quite far off, but there is definite talk going on in Washington as to what patent reform would look like, and there seems to be enough common ground for some good to come of it.
Yet dropping out of college has become almost a rite of passage for ambitious technology entrepreneurs.
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's ill-fated 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage: a British voyage that set out to establish a sailing route through the Arctic and ended with the untimely, mysterious deaths of its two ship crews.
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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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Out of the nearly 10 minutes of dense verse, this passage, and in particular the last three words, sparked a little debate among some of the intelligentsia.
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Indeed, it is a virtual certainty that the Supreme Court will be called upon to interpret a statute long after many of the legislators who supported or opposed its passage have died, retired, or been voted out of office.
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Despite the passage of time, a team of detectives is carrying out extensive inquiries into the crime, which happened between 20:00 and 21:30.
Many of the turf battles and controversial standoffs that occurred in Congress during the weeks and days leading up the passage of Dodd-Frank can be expected to break out again.
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In fact, the smart money says that sufficient numbers of Republican legislators will find offensive the idea of throwing good money after bad that they will preclude passage in the Senate this year of any bail-out for Detroit that the Democrats manage to cobble together.
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.
With immense pressure on Chukwu and NFA officials to earn their passage to the knockout stages of the Nations Cup, Mohammed did not rule out the dissolution of the NFA board should they fail to live up to expectations in Tunisia.
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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.
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