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Since hurricanes, floods, wildfires and earthquakes don’t discriminate between red states and blue, much less between red or blue households, it used to be that federal disaster-relief bills would sail through Congress with unanimous support.

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It is expected to sail through given that the main opposition has now joined forces with the president's party.

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Backers of the motion are confident that it will sail through, especially as they can now also rely on the votes of Odinga's party.

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A Japanese warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland for the first time, Japanese media have reported.

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If the mood of those in the conference hall matched those of people outside, the vote "should sail through", she said, because people are "disgusted, quite frankly".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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