In order to insure safe passage for the convoy, tribute was paid to the various warlords over whose territory the buses would pass.

But Mrs. Whitman still will have to risk a considerable amount of her own political capital to try to insure him safe passage.

The Navy's mission includes insuring free passage through those straits, something we can't give up without serious repercussion among our allies.

Most residents thought, mistakenly, that officers had been assigned to insure safe passage for the school's pupils.

That party and another small one now seem close to pooling their votes with those of the Liberal Democrats to support the measure, insuring passage.

The Canadian Government, to insure passage, agreed to an export duty of 15 percent.

Those rules also must provide for a transitional period to insure fair passage from decades of regulation to free competition and to encourage essential investment.

The point is to insure passage of controversial changes in policy that might not survive if subjected to full hearings and debate as freestanding bills.

But Council officials said narrowing the focus and the range of the bill was the only way to insure passage.

But to insure political passage, even well-heeled districts get checks, which they can apply to a second swimming pool for the local high school.