For example, the United States Constitution gives the president power to veto bills passed by Congress.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

I feel like every other train has passed by here. I've seen four downtown trains pass.

我觉得其他的火车都经过了这儿。我见过四辆去市区的火车经过。

纽约的交通手段 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

As early as 1826 an important pro-slavery writer named Edward Brown argued that "Slavery," he said, quote: "Had ever been the stepping ladder by which nations have passed from barbarism to civilization."

早在1826年,一位重要的亲奴主义作家,爱德华·布朗说过,"奴隶制,曾是帮助那些国家从野蛮时期,发展到文明社会的阶梯"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The law,passed by Congress, does not prevent gays and lesbians from serving in the military.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Now finally swap has the ability, the power, to modify memory that isn't his own, that's not in his own scope because we've passed it in by address.

最终swap有能力，来修改不属于它的内存，不在它的作用域中,因为我们是通过地址传递的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The report led Republicans to say the recovery plan passed by Democrats is failing.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

But on Wednesday, thirteen Republicans supported a jobs bill passed by the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

President Obama wants a final bill passed by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

The newact passed by Congress is named for two victimsof hate crimes.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The bill was passed by close votes in the House and Senate.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

One day,as crowds passed by, two young men left notes.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Liberal Democrats, including Speaker Pelosi, insist that a public option must be part of any bill eventually passed by Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

The bill passed by a margin of 308 to 114, but 102 Democrats and 12 Republicans voted no.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

The measure was passed by a narrow 23 to 22 vote with one member not participating.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

"We need to see this the actual law passed by Congress, this EPCA, Electronic Privacy Communications Act made much more stronger, brought up to date.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she believes it is essential that a government-sponsored public option be part of any bill, if it is to be passed by the House.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The members of Somaliland's Lower House of Parliament introduced a motion to impeach the president this weekend, which if successfully passed by the majority would require a two-thirds vote in the Upper House of Parliament to finish the impeachment.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

and led to massive taxpayer funded bailouts. President Obama, who has made Wall Street reform one of his top priorities, says the reform package passed by the Senate late Thursday means financial firms will now be held accountable for their actions.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

At an estimated $87 billion, the measure would expand health insurance coverage to about currently without it,create new private insurance marketplaces, And,like the slightly more expensive measure passed by the House of Representatives, it would end a practice by private insurance companies of denying coverage to individuals with existing health problems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Human DNA carries the information that decides our heredity, the characteristics passed on to us by our ancestors.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

But the buildings at Guadalupe continued to be used by soldiers and others who passed that way.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

By early October,Congress passed the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a rescue plan for the financial system.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The United States did not vote on the cease-fire resolution passed Thursday by the Security Council.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

As time passed, the area filled with material left by rivers.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

By eighteen eighty-two, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Israel's new anti-rocket system, called the Iron Dome, has passed final tests and will be deployed near the country's borders by November.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

With those results,he tied and then passed long track speed skater Bonnie Blair for the most Winter Olympics medals won by an American.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Many began to identify themselves as Taino, and they started working to restore their traditions by studying the stories passed down by their grandparents.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Recently the U.S.House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee passed a non-binding resolution recommending that President Barack Obama recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19