pass-fail

Definitions

Examples

• The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

• San Francisco was the first city to pass one in 2006; since then, 14 other cities and three states have followed suit.

• Congress is attempting to pass the buck on federal funding for education.

• “They just walk around, they ride in their patrol cars, and they just pass by,” he said.

• Typically, aircraft will work in pairs where the flight lead will make an initial pass to mark a target with rockets.

• Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

• The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.

• But men, through neglecting the rules of health, pass quickly to old age, and die before reaching that term.

• Madame and myself had just been regretting that we should have to pass the evening in this miserable hole of a town.

• He shall pass into strange countries: for he shall try good and evil among men.