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sail through
verb as in execute
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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.
It is expected to sail through given that the main opposition has now joined forces with the president's party.
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.
A Japanese warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland for the first time, Japanese media have reported.
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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