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Simple sentences
A car lying on its side blocked the passage.
The following passage is a quotation from a well-known fable.
I copied a passage from the book into my notebook.
No passage this way.
This is the passage to the sea.
Read this passage and translate it into Japanese.
Read the passage on page 22, please.
The following passage was quoted from a well-known fable.
The teacher read a passage from the Bible to the class.
Don't put your things in the passage.
He rendered the passage into English.
We found a secret passage into the building.
This passage contains a lot of meaning.
The teacher interpreted the passage of the poem.
Slave revolts interfere with Middle Passage.
He read a passage from Shakespeare.
There's a secret passage.
We didn't expect the passage of the bill with so little debate.
I will quote you a passage from one of those letters.
Movie subtitles
During the time an examination lasted, the only movement allowed was the passage of servants, replenishing food and water supplies, or removing human waste.
During the passage through the strait of Scylla and Charybdis Ulysses' ship looses six more companions, whom the monster eats.
Excuse me but it is not allowed to move tables into passage.
Ouessant, which is separated from Bannec by the difficult Fromveur passage. is the biggest and mildest of the islands of the archipelago.
If I worked a few weeks, I might make enough for your passage.
But Clarence said Ryan found a passage.
Listen y'all how 'bout exploring that secret passage?
Well, then, how about giving me passage on your ship?
Now, you take this money and buy yourself a passage on the next ship. that's going where you want to go.
Passage to the tombs.
I have horses waiting beyond the passage to the tombs. and a boat with trusted rowers will take us to the upper Nile.
Oh, Dolly, I leave you now to entertain our brilliant bird of passage.
There's a passage outside.
Did you get passage for next week?
I was wondering if we could get a pram down that passage.
If you need anything, my room is at the end of the passage.
Behind my mirror, a concealed passage will lead you down. a flight of stairs to another door.
There's a passage outside. Wait there instead.
Open the door at the end of the passage.
The prime business of this body is the immediate passage of.
I'm about to ask for a roll-call on the passage of the resolution.
What about my passage money?
And the passage is paid for?
I regret our slow passage, Your Excellency. but it seems our sail cannot entice the wind.
I'm not averse to paying whatever you demand for my passage, Captain.
I could arrange passage.
Well, he's actually currently engaged in a very important male rite of passage.
Surely there is a path that allows passage.
If I worked a few weeks, I might make enough for your passage. And then we'll find a way to keep you over there. until you get well.
We'll pay your passage to Paris, and when you arrive there you'll find a position waiting for you in our Paris branch.
Miss Spencer, I represent the steamship company. and before we refund your passage money, we'd like your signature on this waiver.
I could be induced to arrange a passage.
So you paid a triple fare to Captain Toombs for passage on his leaky old freighter to get there.
And if I should want him to cancel a passage, he'd do that, too.
The king has invested money in your passage, and he's very canny about money.
I booked a passage to Chili and am settling there.
If I could get a job that'd bring enough to buy passage.
You're not going to leave Marseilles without paying your passage.
News and current affairs
This year, commercial vessels successfully navigated the Northeast Passage.
LONDON - Even after the passage of new financial regulations in the United States, the Dodd-Frank Act, and the publication of the Basel Committee's new capital requirements, the financial sector's prospects over the next few years remain highly uncertain.
But, rather than earning him the respect of an outraged Egyptian public, revelations in the opposition press that his plane had to obtain a safe passage and authority to land from the Israelis garnered only howls of derision.
But, with the passage of time, the Barroso-led Commission has also come under fire for being unadventurous and lacklustre.
Israel provides electricity, water, and passage to Gaza, but also maintains a siege intended to prevent imports of larger, more lethal weapons.
If the only factor that increases a professor's salary is the passage of time, why make the extra effort to excel?
Making that difficult passage from closed to open society was a necessary step for the states of Central and Eastern Europe to become candidate members and - perhaps soon - full members of the EU.
The European Union and American economists in the Clinton administration argued for passage of the Kyoto Treaty only by creating models for something that wasn't the Kyoto Treaty.
Devalued exchange rates, moderate government budget deficits, and the passage of time all appeared to be equally ineffective remedies.
All of this is part of a learning process intended to reduce the risk that the global economy might again have to go through the kind of difficult passage that threatened decades of prosperity and harmed the livelihood of millions of people.
Greenspan's irresponsible support of that tax cut was critical to its passage.
That crisis, and others before and since, showed that tensions in the Middle East rarely dissolve with the passage of time.
This passage is a famous statement of the utility of self-interest.
This summer has given us one such example: the climate-change bill, for which President Barack Obama had pushed so hard, will not even be presented to the United States Senate, because it stands no chance of passage.
But they know that an excessively aggressive stance toward the US would undermine their interest in a stable global economy and the safe passage of their goods and energy through international sea and air routes.
The passage of any law by China's rubber-stamp National People's Congress is always a mere formality.
But Merkel's failure to offer those refugees safe passage has exacerbated the chaos.
In Libya alone, an estimated 500,000 to one million additional migrants are awaiting passage to Europe.
Their meaning, it seems, has become more, not less, debatable with the passage of time.
The European Space Agency announced in September 2007 that satellite photos showed that the Northwest Passage appeared clear of ice for shipping for the first time ever, and that the Northeast Passage is almost clear.
Under Nigeria's various dictatorships, for example, many journalists underwent a rite of passage that most prefer to forget: routine harassment, beatings, torture, frame-ups on spurious charges, and incongruously long prison sentences.
And, with the passage of time, the region's wildlife population continued to grow, as animals made use of what people had left behind.
This alludes to an ancient episode in which soldiers from the warring states of Wu and Yue found themselves on the same boat on a river in a storm and agreed to put down their arms to make a common passage.