Sentence examples for Passable response from inspiring English sources

"We should be requiring more of the oil companies to continue deep-water drilling than passable response plans, unreliable blowout preventers and a containment system that has only been used once and can't be deployed past 8,000 feet," Mr. Markey said.

When I am asked, "What inspired you to write this?", my response deals in black and white, not the half-tones which shade any passable writing.

4. WRAP-UP/HOMEWORK: Individually, students use ideas in the Times article, from class discussion, and from their research to write response papers reflecting on the final statement in the article: "[W]hile a strategically passable outcome still seems within reach, it is increasingly hard to believe that there are the makings of a major success for American foreign policy in Iraq".

That they had rehearsed crisp responses was apparent all the way to the end, when both men delivered prepared closing statements in passable Spanish.

Certainly passable.

Both were passable.

Greek salads are passable.

That figure is passable.

Rice pudding was passable.

All passable slogans.

--into passable grades.