In low-lying areas, streets seemed passable only in kayaks.
I find translation almost impossible, but I persevere because the results seem passable.
A powerful smartphone OS and (possibly) a passable netbook or tablet one, it seems like it may be a really good fit for embedded systems.
It seems that the idea of it has been commodified so much, made so readily available, that even the Christians – traditionally the least cool people on Earth – have managed to make a passable attempt at it.
When even the state's top official in charge of implementing the law couldn't muster up a passable defense of its details, it seemed as if it would have to be struck down.
But for many decades it seemed like at least when things were amazing for the richest Americans, they were halfway passable for workers.
If the sound was passable, it was texturally thin, and it all seemed manipulated on a mixing board: unfortunate for a composer of some of the most voluptuous movie music ever created.
Add Jill Grove's rich low register as the Omniscient Mussel and Bruce Donnell's fun, frothy direction of Act I, and the result seems like a passable rendering of a helplessly silly, completely unnecessary opera.
Another problem arose with an appetizer best left, it would seem, to Japanese experts: a prettily presented trio of bluefin tuna brought only passable components of a slice of peppered, seared tuna; tuna tartare that was somewhat better; and a roll of tuna and crab that was coarse and heavy.
These statistics may point to the possibility of a troop drawdown strategy for the United States — but while 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.
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".
