• It's a ship that brings containers from Canada to Liverpool - it's quite a sizeable ship - it's about 210m long and it's about to swing to go through a passage way in order to gain access to the lock.

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  • The speech was one of a series of abortion language developments that paved the way to passage of health care legislation.

    NPR: Health Care Passage Hinged On Abortion Language

  • Lobbyists craft new regulations, bribe their way through passage and then don consultant hats to be remunerated generously for implementing pointless rules only they understand.

    FORBES: Some Dietary Suggestions For Our Regulators

  • Sadly, for four nights in August, drinking viche was a necessary evil, a rite of passage in the same way that cheap keg beer is a part of university and getting hit in the groin is a disagreeable consequence of riding a mechanical bull.

    BBC: A little liquid courage in Cali, Colombia

  • "Congressional Democrats are likely to adopt a stance that welcomes the president's recognition that action is needed to address the housing turmoil, while noting that the president is belatedly adopting a largely Democratic agenda well under way to passage, " says Howard Glaser, a financial services analyst, in a study of Bush's proposal.

    FORBES: This Is Not A Bailout

  • At first it became a way to streamline passage of deficit-reducing measures in the Senate.

    ECONOMIST: Reader debate

  • The nexus was this: Ruthie's passage into death revealed a way of life that showed me the way home.

    WSJ: Rod Dreher on the Importance of Titles | Word Craft

  • Obama said Wednesday that the Senate agreement created "a new framework that I believe will help pave the way for final passage" of what he called historic health care reform legislation.

    CNN: Pelosi asks to see better way than public option

  • The Senate made critical progress last night with a creative new framework that I believe will help pave the way for final passage and a historic achievement on behalf of the American people.

    WHITEHOUSE: New Recovery Act Funding for Community Health Centers

  • Is this in any way hooked to the passage of X, Y, Z, or does -- will this agreement stand alone even if everything else blows up?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And one of the first and easiest steps that can be taken to signal to the American people that Washington can work and can work in a bipartisan way would be the passage of an extension of tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Mr. Ives's way with language earned him passage to the land of musical theater.

    WSJ: Parsing a Playwright's Universal Language

  • Republicans note the confrontational way in which Democrats secured passage of the health-care bill, via a devious parliamentary manoeuvre.

    ECONOMIST: Congress

  • The passage of time... in no way dilutes the seriousness of such a crime.

    BBC: Loyalist gets life term for teenager's murder in 1973

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

    ECONOMIST: After Kashmir

  • When the passage was clear again, I stooped double and made my way inside.

    NEWYORKER: The Sanctuary

  • In fact, PANGAEA had just arrived in Annapolis after completing a traverse of the Northwest Passage from the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, and is on her way to Florida to explore the Everglades before an expedition next year far up the Amazon River.

    FORBES: Connect

  • 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.

    BBC: Andy Murray beats Marcos Baghdatis at French Open

  • Meanwhile, the government has agreed that MPs will be given time to discuss the way ahead on the Leveson proposals on press freedom during the passage of the Crime and Courts Bill.

    BBC: Leveson reform discussions continue

  • One might conclude that this trait evolved to ease their passage through a narrow birth canal, but it seems to result from the way vertebrate skeletons develop.

    NEWYORKER: It Ain��t Necessarily So

  • The inevitability of a national healthcare system has shaped the way Congress has attempted to regulate hospitals and doctors ever since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.

    FORBES: Obamacare, And The Government's Cruel War On Innovation

  • Each had its own way of moving through the land and each had its own odor of passage: the railway tracks cut straight ahead, asking no questions of the bedrock through which it sliced, the wrought-iron rails smelling of axle grease and the wooden slats of rancid, licorice-scented shellac.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet'

  • Nemesis and The Passage are the latest examples of artistic expressions, literary and otherwise, that in some way reflect, reimagine or comment on viral panics.

    FORBES: Vampires, Literature And The Culture Of Viral Panic

  • She leaned forward over the sink, unexpectedly dizzy, taking her weight on her arms, and staring down into the dark passage of the drain, understanding it for a few seconds as if it opened a way out of the world, or into it.

    NEWYORKER: Friendly Fire

  • Passage of the constitution, regarded as a key step toward the establishment of Iraqi democracy, paves the way for an election for a new Iraqi parliament in mid-December.

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  • We are a thin blue line, if I may put it that way, in places of critical transition, countries emerging from conflict, or making the difficult passage to democracy.

    UN: Secretary-General

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