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Passing in sentence

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If you're passing somebody on the street or in the hallway here, smile.
To appreciate the scale of this accomplishment, try to imagine the US Congress passing immigration reform, campaign finance reform and banking reform.
He got himself registered, and then he got educated about the upcoming primary election, and on election day he was out there not just passing out stickers, but chatting up voters and encouraging people to vote, and talking about the election with passersby.
Fear fills the void at all costs, passing off what you dread for what you know, offering up the worst in place of the ambiguous, substituting assumption for reason.
Church bells can remind us of the passing of time, or perhaps our own mortality.
I've been openly laughed at, abused from passing cars and been told that I'm delusional.
And in that moment, you are praying, "Oh Lord, please let this bear be passing through."
That bear is not passing through!
I'm inspired by seeing older people step into their own power and leadership and say, "I'm not passing a torch, I'm helping you light the fire."
If we look at transiting exoplanets with the Hubble Space Telescope, we find that in the ultraviolet, you see much bigger blinking, much less light from the star, when the planet is passing in front.
Some states have also tried passing sexting misdemeanor laws but these laws repeat the same problem because they still make consensual sexting illegal.
Since 2012, conservative state legislatures across the US have ramped up attempts to roll back African-American voting rights by passing restrictive voter ID laws and curtailing early voting opportunities.
While the elevated train rumbled overhead on its track, quite literally the room reverberated with each passing train car.
And I started to hear these sounds, this "whoosh," kind of whisper, like something passing through me.
(Imitates a siren passing by) The siren appeared to change in pitch as it moved towards and away from you.
Quite a few years of life have strengthened my conviction that each and everyone's existence is deeply tied to that of others: life is not time merely passing by, life is about interactions.
This built-in sun shield helped protect them from melanoma, likely making them evolutionarily fitter and capable of passing this useful trait on to new generations.
You're barely passing.
So this is us finding our fire and passing it on to you.
We need to find ways of encouraging forms of knowing that are more active, and don't always involve passing off our effort into our bubble.
The unseen traveler forever passing, carrying life, moving, awning of earth felt and heard, strong and stirring, blowing.
And most of these negative comments were passing remarks or assumptions.
But very often I would just be met with these passing ignorant remarks.
And after doing this for a long time, and the Media Lab passing the baton on, I thought, "Well, maybe it's time for me to do a project.
With each passing year, her contributions become more vital: overfishing and habitat destruction have decimated salmon populations, putting the whales at near-constant risk of starvation.
And yes, we have developed more selective drugs, but it's still a challenge to get them into the tumor, and they end up accumulating in the other organs as well or passing through your urine, which is a total waste.
If you could do this, what you would find that with each passing day, each passing year, each passing billions of years, OK, the distance between galaxies is getting greater.
Instead of passing the hat each time, OK?
So there I was, sitting in the locker room, getting ready for a match within days of my dad passing away.
When I was little and learning about the inevitability of maternity, it was never explained to me the commonness of these factors that women consider, like the risk of passing on hereditary illness, the danger of having to stop life-saving medication for the duration of your pregnancy, concern about overpopulation, your access to resources, and the fact that there are 415,000 children in the foster-care system in the United States at any given time.
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