Easing their passage has been better access to credit and low interest rates.

It could have been nothing more than the sweet words men were prone to use to ease their passage.

What a hell of a fourth quarter, but there's much I can do to ease his passage.

And as their teacher, he would do his best to ease their passage.

Four of the babies arrived in a rush without her to ease their passage into the world.

It's a long, lonely hallway through which even close friends can do little to ease one another's passage.

He perhaps eases his passage toward what looks like a contentious party congress late next month.

On the one hand, we set enormous store by appearances, which in America have the power to ease a person's passage through the social ranks.

When he died, he would not even have memories of having been loved to ease his passage.

"I can't give life to one appointed to death, but I can ease her passage."