#passe

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#away #change #children #completion #compulsory

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. ↗

— Julian Bond

#entered #into #legal #passed #period

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#aviation #comes #continue #highways #money

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy. ↗

— Marian Burros

#beef #done #get #gravy #hold

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#down #energy #energy bill #foreign #foreign oil

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#become #come #concern #concerned #continued

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away. ↗

— Mac Davis

#back #been #colonel #elvis #first

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out. ↗

— John Brown Gordon

#down #face #fifth #i #me

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#away #great #i #mom #nobody

Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#having #look #men #other #out