Passing in example sentence

In a sense, these “ghost cities” resemble the Russian empire’s Potemkin villages, built to create an impressive illusion for the passing Czarina; but China’s ghost cities are real and were presumably meant to do more than flatter the country’s leaders.

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In fact, two years ago, only 27 percent of all the third- through eighth-graders were passing the state standard in both English and math.

The move destroyed the reservations, making it easier to further subdivide and to sell with every passing generation.

So we offer teachers bonuses if the kids they teach score passing grades on these big test scores that are used to evaluate the quality of school systems.

She found herself listening to a consultant one day who was trying to help teachers boost the test scores of the kids, so that the school would reach the elite category in percentage of kids passing big tests.

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