In the sixteenth century, one astronomer suggested that navigators could observe the moon as it passed in front of different known stars to tell longitude.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

It passed in the Senate only because two men from slave states voted for it.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

It was better protected from Indian attacks because it passed by two Army forts.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

It passed easily. The bill had less support in the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

There is a considerable amount of international pressure for it to get it passed.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

He said the eighteen twenty compromise worked -- not because Congress passed it -- but because the states agreed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

"As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Since the anti-trust law had been passed in eighteen ninety, few companies had been found guilty of violating it.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

The go-between sees to it that money is passed - often illegally - from one person to another.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Finally,in nineteen fifty-eight, Congress passed the Alaska Statehood Bill and President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

So they quickly passed a bill that made it much more difficult for Chinese citizens to come to live in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

It was a lonely fight. But his camera and fighting words helped to get a law passed which would destroy the Mulberry Bend slum.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

It was a lie Soapy Smith used to take money from people who passed through Skagway.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

They passed a bill and sent it to the White House for the president's approval.

VOA: special.2010.01.21