Spread out over four large bookshelves, the remaining books looked remarkably paltry, considering their number, and even a little grim, leaning against each other and looking as if they'd been passed over too many times.
Senior staff members said Mr. Browne's departure may have been brought about because he had been passed over too many times for the newspaper's top editorial position, and because he and Mr. Kosner do not have the same editorial sensibilities.
Matthew Maher (of Mr. Burns, a post-electric play) is Sam, a 35-year-old who has been passed over so many times by younger menials that he realizes, beneath his omnipresent and slightly fraying Red Sox cap, that he is likely never to advance from the bottom rung.
But after she became pregnant, she said in the complaint, she began to be treated much worse by other managers and was passed over time and again for promotions.
She'd been passed over at adoption events time and again, as a shy, older beagle mix.
He said the body had been passed over for the prize many times because of politics.
Although Farragut had finally made captain in 1855, he had been passed over for squadron commander three times.
The idea is, this guy must have been passed over for promotions a few times, so giving him one now looks like we couldn't find anyone better.
Wurz did not get the drive on that occasion and now seems to have been passed over in his ambitions for the second time in six months as he was also on Jaguar's list of potential drivers as a more experienced alternative to Klien.
