Sentence examples for could not be passed from inspiring English sources

"They went to the end of that road," Mr. Dye said, "and the buck could not be passed".

For several years, the British government insisted that it could not be passed from cattle to humans.

The title of "Baba" could not be passed on.What, then, would he do there, once the loya jirga was over and a rickety government in place?

A new law would meet stiff resistance, and probably could not be passed in time anyway.How would the Japanese public take that?

Although Giants officials had not publicly expressed any wavering of faith in Collins, they believed Manning simply could not be passed up.

Proposed climate laws presented to the Senate have encountered fierce opposition and on Tuesday, lawmakers accepted it could not be passed before Copenhagen.

"We couldn't understand why it couldn't be passed".

Because I rather suspect that if you actually dug into that, there'd be something that was quite controversial in there and it couldn't be passed quickly".

"So seeing as this law couldn't be passed from the top down, I felt I'd start a grass-roots movement to try to get it passed from the bottom up".

The "cup of kindness" of "Auld Lang Syne" apparently couldn't be passed all the way around.

By severing the financial part of the bill (which couldn't be passed without absent Democrats) from the part eliminating the collective bargaining rights of public employees (which could be), and then doing the latter, Wisconsin Republicans have made it crystal clear that their goal has had nothing whatever to do with the state budget.