Sentences with phrase «exchange for passage»

Just out of curiosity have you ever heard of anyone working on one of these tours in exchange for passage?

In the Canadian province of Ontario, the Liberal Party formed a minority government from 1985 to 1987 on the basis of a formal accord with the New Democratic Party (NDP): the NDP agreed to support the Liberals for two years on all confidence motions and budgetary legislation, in exchange for the passage of certain legislative measures proposed by the NDP.

The amendment is the result of a compromise from 2012, when Cuomo signed off on lines drawn by lawmakers that year in exchange for the passage of the redistricting amendment.

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Add to that a lack of regulation: After the passage of the JOBS Act in 2012, which aimed to make it easier for small businesses to raise capital, startups could take on many more investors before the Securities and Exchange Commission effectively forced them to go public.

Passage of the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act last year promises to support even faster growth by allowing crowdfunders to invest in exchange for equity and by expanding the pool of investors who can participate.

Among the safe - for - work passages is this wry exchange that closes out the brief Q&A:

The longest biblical passage on male - male sex is Romans 1:26 - 27: «Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another.»

A passage of Paul's clarifies the problem somewhat: people «exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles» (Rom.

At the same time, Flanagan is also supported the passage of legislation designed to boost donor registration, including registering 16 and 17 - year - olds as well as providing for the Donate Life Registry through the state health exchange.

Cuomo, in exchange for an endorsement from the left leaning Working Families Party, promised to help reunite the two Democratic factions in order to achieve passage of several progressive issues, including public campaign financing, a women's equality act with an abortion rights provision, and a measure to give college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.

(Recall that the passage of legislation to implement the state's first charters occured on the former governor's watch, and he later traded a salary hike for state legislators in exchange for agreement on lifting the 100 - school cap).

According to Cahill — Hein does not talk to us and has never publicly spoken to this subject that I know of — Hein agreed to phasing in election and Safety Net expenses in exchange for sales - tax passage.

Securities Regulations Exemptions — Vote Passed (232 - 188, 12 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would require an issuer of securities to meet a specific set of criteria in order for the issuer's transactions to constitute a sale of «nonpublic» securities that are exempt from registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission and from state regulation.

Last year, Cahill held up legislative passage for two months in exchange for the county taking over safety net and election expenses from the towns and the city.

Krueger's comments come as some Democrats and progressive groups are beginning to question Cuomo's commitment to the promise he made last May in exchange for an endorsement from the Working Families Party last May — that he would Democrats retake the Senate, a change in leadership he said was necessary to ensure passage of the Women's Equality Act.

If I have found my journey to be a maddening tangle of wandering «rabbit - trails,» a labyrinth of incessantly circular passages to nowhere and back, and a plethora of assorted «dead - ends» fraudulently disguised as paths of great promise, it can only be because I have mindlessly exchanged God's compass for mine.

I'm imagining a killer app similar to «Bump» for the iPhone or Pokemon for the Nintendo DS where you could bump your Kindle or iPhone and instead of exchanging addresses or a Pokemon character, you could exchange book passages or entire books.

The body is precisely the locus for the commerce of desire, the passage of time, the exchange between Eros and Thanatos.

«The without prejudice rule does not apply to those passages in the witness statement,» said Framlington in Barnetson v Framlington Group Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 502, [2007] All ER (D) 429 (May), «because they refer to exchanges that took place before the commencement of litigation or any basis for potential litigation and, therefore, at a time when there was no dispute.»