The bill failed to proceed beyond the first stage in the process of becoming a law.

There is life beyond the practice room and the stage.

In the 1980's, such coalitions never got beyond the talking stage.

For the time being, his consciousness had passed beyond the stage where such things could affect him.

Some people never get beyond the stage of sticking everything they find into their mouths.

The two did not talk much, for they were getting beyond the stage where formal conversation is felt to be necessary.

They would never progress beyond the stage in which you found them.

Man was now well beyond the stage when reintegration would work.

Joe, the white man, had passed beyond the stage of suffering.

Little is known about the Taepodong-2 design beyond the first stage.