Approaching a narrow passage between two bergs, he urges us on: "Okay, we're going to shoot the gap!"
To ask that question after the passage of two centuries, says Pietro Nivola of the Brookings Institution, is to pose an impossible thought experiment.
Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova , the No. 4 seed, also enjoyed a comfortable passage into round two.
Because the bill requires changes to California tax law, its passage requires a two-thirds majority vote .
Passage of these two pieces of legislation would end a year of bitter partisan budget battles on Capitol Hill.
But members of both parties said that passage of the two budgets was a precondition to further progress, allowing both parties to speak to their political base before talking further with each other.
Pate said the Freemen want a "guarantee of free passage" for one or two of their members to leave the compound and help set up a "common law grand jury" to determine if they have broken any laws.
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.
After the bill was brought up under a procedure that required a two-thirds majority for passage and failed, Mr. Weiner gave a loud, animated speech haranguing Mr. King and his Republican colleagues, most of whom voted no.
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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.
Even before its passage, Diana was able to secure injunctions against two photographers whom she accused of harassing her.
"Because the bill accomplishes these two goals ... we strongly support passage of this bill and will urge that the president sign it, " the letter said.
When Murray broke for the fifth time in the match on his way to a two-set lead it seemed a comfortable passage into round four was on the cards.
Rob Liley gave Quins an early 6-0 advantage with two well-taken penalties during a scrappy opening passage of play.
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.
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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More than two years ago President Barack Obama won a celebrated political victory with passage of the misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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The Spaniards have already secured their passage to the last 16 and will host Rangers, who have picked up two points on their travels, on 9 December.
There were at least two Democratic senators opposed to that bill who could have complicated its swift passage on an evening when senators were also rushing to finish votes on the budget.
It is no coincidence, she believes, that the fire was set just two days before thousands gathered to commemorate the Selma demonstrations that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Play had resumed at 4-4 after a first session which saw the two Englishmen rack up seven half-century breaks between them in an absorbing passage of snooker in which neither man was able to establish a substantial lead.
Nasri then made two crucial contributions at either end of the pitch to ensure Arsenal's safe passage into the last eight.
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.
"Certainly this is not the passage of John Franklin, " a British explorer whose 1845 mission ended in the deaths of 129 men after their two ships were lost in the ice.
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