Passage used in a sentence

Passage in a sentence as a noun

As mike_esspe points out: this action being taken is through the passage of Russia's "anti-child pornography" bill.

I see a humanities degree as nothing less than a rite of passage to intellectual adulthood.

I feel like it's almost a right of passage these days to rely heavily on a Google service, only to have something go wrong and be left out in the cold.

I remember reading a few months ago a great passage in a PG essay:The most dangerous thing for the frontpage is stuff that's too easy to upvote.

This article cites a paragraph near the end of a minor story published days later as the passage where they "walk back" their original story.

Whenever I talk at my old university, I always tell people that dropping out is by no means a rite of passage or prerequisite to success.

This passage is just beautiful:"Modern cell phones are not just another technological\nconvenience.

In that section of that book, I found this passage, "Fluency in reading can only be achieved by extensive practice on all the interrelated aspects of the reading process.

More ideas about this in passage: "Right, so you send it to random internet hosts"- The internet lets one hear their own beliefs echoed back with such force that it drowns out any other input.

So many stories like this are sensationalized in the media and it convinces so many young entrepreneurs that it's a right of passage to struggle while building a business.

There's an interesting passage in the original Washington Post article, though, about how they want to be careful to protect the identities of the cooperating companies so as to not "damage their sources".

I also really like this passage later on:"These cases require us to decide how the search incident to arrest doctrine applies to modern cell phones, which are\nnow such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that \nthe proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude they were\nan important feature of human anatomy.

I'm not quite as rabid as a lot of HN commenters are about this entire issue, but the following passage is near-comical:Balancing the competing interests at stake, the Government has taken a number of significant steps -- above and beyond what the law requires -- in order to promote transparency and accommodate the the legitimate interests of companies.

NYT shows its bias with passages such as"In one passage, Mr. Greenwald makes the demonstrably false assertion that one “unwritten rule designed to protect the government is that media outlets publish only a few such secret documents, and then stop,” that “they would report on an archive like Snowden’s so as to limit its impact — publish a handful of stories, revel in the accolades of a ‘big scoop,’ collect prizes, and then walk away, ensuring that nothing had really changed.” Many establishment media outlets obviously continue to pursue the Snowden story.