• Fay's passage over Haiti and the Dominican Republic was more destructive, with more than a dozen deaths reported.

    BBC: Storm drenches south-west Florida

  • The journey could take months, as families crossed rivers in the dead of night, traveled miles by foot, endured a rough and dangerous passage over the North Atlantic.

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  • No one now knows how easy it would be to turbo-charge an existing human pathogen, or take one that infects another type of animal and assist its passage over the species barrier.

    ECONOMIST: Synthetic biology

  • The federal agency noted that 81 culverts built in southern Alaska to improve salmon passage over the past decade survived last September's 100-year flood in the region, while roads with older, undersized culverts were washed out.

    WSJ: Towns, ecologists seek climate-friendly culverts

  • Yet a deal to offer them safe passage back over the border may be inching its way through the works.

    ECONOMIST: After Kashmir

  • Japan is mired in the same political paralysis that gripped it before the accident, with the country's two biggest parties quarreling over passage of a proposed tax law, even though both agree it needs to be passed.

    WSJ: Japan's Tsunami, Nuclear Crisis Push Reforms Forward

  • Educational bureaucrats are in a snit over the passage of Proposition 227, which requires that non-English-speaking students be taught English as rapidly as possible.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • They looked at 119 genes that have accumulated mutations over the passage of time, allowing the relative times of origin of each species to be estimated.

    BBC: Earth AP

  • If the public is conflicted on the subject, it's fair to say that some notable politicians - over the passage of time - have been too.

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  • So by taking a core from the bottom and looking for sand layers, Dr Liu was able to record the passage of ancient hurricanes over the pond.

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  • The Environment Agency said while the passage of tagged fish over the barrage had been low, it had found the numbers of young salmon upstream had increased, which underlined the complexity of the issue.

    BBC: Fears over Tees Barrage impact on fish

  • "We as a country tend to lull ourselves into a false sense of security over the passage of time, " said Andy Lamprey, vice president of the security firm Andrews International and a former Los Angeles Police Department senior SWAT supervisor.

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  • So too is the hope that the North-East Passage above Russia, also known as the Northern Sea Route (NSR), as well as the North-West Passage from the Atlantic over the top of North America, will become navigable for several months each summer.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • At the moment, this route through the Canadian archipelago is navigable at best for a brief summer spell. (Sovereignty over the passage is one of the Arctic's many unresolved issues: Canada claims it, but the United States says the waters are international.) In theory, a complete opening of the Northwest Passage can shave 2, 500 miles off a journey from Europe to Asia.

    ECONOMIST: The Arctic

  • But his opinion also highlights concerns over the hasty passage of the new legislation and the danger that it may be interpreted arbitrarily.

    ECONOMIST: Slovakia criminalises the use of Hungarian

  • West Germany were the Italians' opponents in the final, though their passage was marred by a semifinal penalties victory over France principally remembered for a horrendous challenge by West German goalkeeper Harald Schumacher which left Frenchman Patrick Battiston unconscious.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • 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.

    FORBES: Does Anyone Still Remember Why We Have The Bush Tax Cuts?

  • Dan Carter missed an early shot at goal but moments later Ma'a Nonu was driven over the line after a powerful passage of New Zealand play, and when Muliaina raced clear from halfway to score a second try after just 12 minutes, a rout looked to be on the cards.

    BBC: Tri-Nations: New Zealand 31-17 South Africa

  • But four decades of drought finally ended, as Ghana's 4-0 victory over Cape Verde in Praia secured their passage to Germany 2006.

    BBC: Fans have gone wild on the streets of Ghana

  • There are also political parallels to the debate over same-sex marriage, the passage of which in 2011 depended on a small number of Senate Republican votes joining with a much larger number of Democrats.

    WSJ: Medical-Pot Debate Rises in Albany

  • Apart from Andrew Strauss carting Razzaq over mid-wicket for six, the passage of play that followed was dominated by the visitors.

    BBC: Eoin Morgan seals England series win over Pakistan

  • Of half a dozen territorial disputes in the region, the biggest is probably between the United States and Canada, over the status of the north-west passage.

    ECONOMIST: The melting north | The

  • This bill was originally introduced in the 2010-12 session of Parliament and a carry-over motion, allowing the bill's passage to conclude in this session, was passed on 10 January 2012.

    BBC: Local Government Finance Bill part two

  • 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.

    BBC: MPs pass Financial Services Bill

  • Or the cost of parenting a child born with a congenital illness that will result in health care expenditures that would easily have taken the child over the lifetime maximums that existed prior to the passage of the ACA?

    FORBES: Uber-Conservative AEI Fellow Defends Obamacare-Hell Officially Freezes Over

  • Yet South Korea's passage to the last four has been soured by controversy about their wins over Italy and Spain.

    BBC: South Korea reaches fever pitch

  • Fellow Italians Lazio sealed their passage into the last 16 after a comfortable 2-0 home win over Germany's Borussia Monchengladbach .

    CNN: Europa League holders Atletico Madrid dumped out

  • De Ridder, who had earlier hit the post, then saw an effort tipped over the bar as Wigan looked set to secure a safe passage into round four.

    BBC: Hull City 2-3 Wigan

  • The president triumphed with the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but it came only over loud protest from within his party, and with near-unanimous support of congressional Republicans.

    CNN: Bill Clinton

  • But Sandor Levin, the Michigan Democrat who had originally proposed such a watchdog commission, said the plan could swing another 20 Democrats over to supporting the trade deal, enough to ensure its passage through Congress.

    BBC: Enforcement plan to appease China critics

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