Sentences with phrase «already passed»

Plucked from space by ISS astronauts using the station's multi-jointed robot arm, the uncrewed Dragon cargo capsule, made by SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, had already passed its pre-docking manoeuvring tests to show it can safely approach the ISS.

Any bill emerging from the Senate would also need to be reconciled with a different version already passed by the House, and then signed by the president.

The House has already passed another bill that touches on regulatory relief for researchers.

«The suite of bills already passed would increase federal research & development (R&D) funding by an estimated 2.1 % above fiscal year 2016 levels in the House and 3.2 % above FY 2016 levels in the Senate, slightly above the rate of inflation,» AAAS wrote, citing objective analysis completed by the association's R&D Budget and Policy Program.

There'd be no urgency to any of [this] if we had 100 years in which to do that; but the science would indicate that we don't have 100 years and the results that we're already seeing from the world would indicate that we have incredibly small amounts of time, that we've already passed the point in some respects, and we best get to work, trying to force the spring as it were.

Sovereign will become available to the public towards the end of this year, but has already passed its first test.

All of the following substances have already passed phase I safety trials and are proceeding into phase II or III efficacy and toxicity trials.

Women who have already passed through the menopause may be able to have children following a blood treatment usually used to heal wounds

It had already passed hover tests — flying like a helicopter — with flying colors.

By that point we had already passed 350 ppm.

About a fifth of the leaders of «LMB's more than 50 research groups are currently PLTs, with 80 % of the rest having already passed through the program.

Around 100 climbers and guides had already passed beyond the Khumbu Icefall to prepare their attempts on the summit.

All but one set of adjusted figures show that we will have already passed 1 °C before the next round of UN talks on a global climate treaty get under way in December (see graph).

That could all change in the next few weeks, if the America Invents Act, already passed by the Senate, is passed by the House of Representatives.

Based on this disagreement and others Hare and a colleague lobbied a senior editor of Psychological Assessment to get Skeem and Cooke to reexamine their paper, which had already passed peer review, and make revisions.

Because these drugs have already passed FDA - safety tests, it could be available to patients on the order of a few years, rather than decades.

The House of Representatives has already passed a bill that would cut national greenhouse gas emissions by 4 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, whereas the Senate is currently drafting several competing bills.

Although several other US states have already passed e-cigarette legislation, the California bill had special resonance because the state has a reputation for pioneering anti-tobacco legislation.

«There is no motivation for this period because you have already passed.»

«The suite of bills already passed would increase federal research & development (R&D) funding by an estimated 2.1 % above fiscal year 2016 levels in the House and 3.2 % above fiscal year 2016 levels in the Senate, slightly above the rate of inflation,» Holt noted.

«I think at some point, people will realize we've already passed it.»

We have an incredibly small amount of time; we have already passed the threshold points in some respects.

TeVeS has already passed a crucial first test, Milgrom says, because it can be used to explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, a cosmic optical illusion in which matter bends light.

Those elephants — or at least their tusks — have probably already passed through the sprawling tourist curio market in the country's capital, Dakar.

By the early 1990s, when the Kola effort began to stall, the Voyager spacecraft had already passed beyond Pluto's orbit.

The Democrat - supported bill — which already passed in the House — would affect the many landlords who own buildings with single room occupancy units and prefer to rent them out to tourists rather than low - income New Yorkers.

Cuomo proposed a regulatory framework for ride - hailing in his executive budget, and a bipartisan majority in the Senate has already passed a bill.

Cuomo has tried to salvage his women's agenda, asking the state Assembly to come back for a special session to act on the other items in the package that do not include abortion rights that the Senate already passed.

Former Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes declined for years to pursue the investigation, but Thompson has vowed that his office would take another look at the case to see if George should be brought up on criminal charges, despite the fact that the statute of limitations has already passed.

He was in Rochester Tuesday to push for passage of the Combat Terrorist Use of Social Media Act, which has already passed the House.

The Senate has already passed a pension forfeiture bill but DeFrancisco said the Assembly wants to exclude teachers and other employees from the agreement.

In addition, we've already passed legislation to enact term limits for legislative leaders, and even made it part of our internal rules.

Erie County has already passed what is believed to be the most comprehensive ban on microbeads in the country.

The legislation had already passed the state Assembly.

«We write today asking you to move quickly on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) by bringing a bill inclusive of protections for all victims of domestic violence, similar to that which has already passed the Senate, to the House floor for a vote during these final weeks of the 112th Congress,» the letter said.

Since the Senate has already passed its bill and Cuomo has proposed his own plan on the matter, Cahill said he expects «fairly quick action.»

The Assembly has already passed a bill to essentially impose a two - year moratorium on the impact of the new testing associated with Common Core, on both teachers and students, and Senate Education Chair Flanagan says he expects full agreement on a new law by the end of March.

In session, the Assembly took up noncontroversial budget legislation dealing with state debt service: the measure had already passed the Senate.

The Senate had already passed six of the remaining nine budget bills.

The state Assembly had already passed the bill.

What I'm not open - minded about is simply recommending the same application that we've already passed on.»

Evidence from dozens and dozens of cities that have already passed this kind of law shows that although it may take some getting used to, the vast majority will make the change,» they added.

He also noted the Senate has already passed a one - house charter bill once before and hopes to do so again, adding:

New York state has already passed its own family leave law.

The Assembly has already passed legislation for a straight two - year extension of the mayoral control law.

The Senate has already passed their version of the education tax credit.

Kristen, having already passed through the lobby, with its wing chairs and its gilded half - clad cherubs, arrived in a small room in a quiet corner of the «Club Floor,» a special wing for V.I.P.'s.

Several other states have already passed legislation to create state - sponsored retirement savings programs.

The Senate already passed legislation to increase penalties for bias - related graffiti and graffiti on religious property when the act of vandalism occurs at a house of worship, a chilling effect occurs.

But immigrant advocates fear that as a stand - alone measure, the Dream Act, which has already passed in the State Assembly, would stand little chance in the Republican - controlled Senate.