Sentences with phrase «preceded the passage of»

The judge based his conclusion largely on legislative debate preceding the passage of the bill last spring.

The Smith - Hughes Act of 1917 preceded the passage of compulsory attendance laws in Mississippi in 1918, the last of the 48 states of the time to pass such a law.

Not exact matches

Context is defined as, «parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage usually influencing its meaning or effect.»

A little more research revealed that all three of the passages that instruct wives to submit to their husbands are either preceded or followed by instructions for slaves to submit to their masters.

This passage is preceded by the choice of who you will serve or where your treasure will be.

All three of the biblical passages that instruct wives to submit to their husbands are either directly preceded or followed by instructions for slaves to obey their masters, with phrases like «likewise» and «in the same way» connecting them.

Lest any reader should suppose that he finally abandoned his rationalism in his attempt to state the relations of God and the world, Whitehead states immediately preceding this passage that» in each antithesis there is a shift of meaning which converts the opposition into a contrast.»

That [B] preceded [C] in the original version is plausible considering the continuity that exists in the dynamics of the discussion of the whole made by the juxtaposition of the now two separated passages.

But there is a significant passage, the content of which precedes and undergirds Jesus» actions: «Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel.»

A passage quoted near the end of the preceding chapter summarized a part of this discussion with an emphasis on the relation of persuasion to necessity.

In the postmodern version, this usually does not involve the actual repurposing of passages from preceding works, as it did in medieval texts.

The pre-existent glory is brought into connection with the remembered facts of Jesus» life in such passages as those quoted in the preceding paragraph, of which II Corinthians 8:9 is typical: «Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor.

Ford described himself during these meetings as invariably wedded to some single «correct» or self - evident interpretation of a line of Whitehead's text, whereupon John would gently, dialectically, raise questions about possible alternatives that, as Ford would subsequently admit, seemed more in keeping with interpretations of other passages to which Ford himself had, in preceding weeks, assented.

And that such a glorious transformation as this ought of necessity to be preceded by despair is shown by Edwards in another passage.

Isaiah's notable passage announcing the coming of the «Prince of Peace» is preceded by a picture of war's end — «All the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire» (Isaiah 9:5 - 6.)

The sentences immediately preceding the passage quoted by Popper may be understood to further support this deontological interpretation of Whitehead:

Cuomo is backing the term limit amendment in addition to a constitutional change that would create a full - time Legislature, both of which he hopes will achieve first passage in a potential special session that could precede the first legislative pay hike since 1998.

Instead of soaring from the strong buildup that preceded it, the ending just coasts along on the good will it fostered in the previous passages.

That there was little data on student, district, and school performance before the second advent of standardized testing in the decade preceding No Child's passage also limited what reformers could have done.

White symbolises the unity that precedes diversity, rites of passage, balance, grace and a moment frozen in time just before disappearance, obliteration, renunciation, abdication and bereavment.

In addition, each permit to travel the passage has thus far been preceded by a series of bureaucratic hurdles.

As I've noted previously, the citation of Bradley could be read as applying to this passage on calibration (but obviously not to the preceding discussion), and indeed Wegman et al follow the structure of the Bradley passage quite closely.

Spracklen, D. V., Arnold, S. R. & Taylor, C. M. Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests.

It was in effect a summation of the whole preceding passage, including para 22 which heralded a direct contrast with «victims of damage or injury caused by an identified vehicle».