The pass statement, which serves as a NOP.
Her doctor makes a passing statement about eating healthy with a knowing smile.
And even after hundreds of thousands of people began coming out last Saturday and Sunday, and the regime used violence against nonviolent demonstrators, President Obama only made a passing statement about not being able to remain silent, only to fall into silence right afterwards.
The asylum seekers, who have managed to hand several notes to journalists waiting outside the camp and pass other statements to lawyers, say that scores of immigrants have also drunk concoctions of shampoo and detergents and that others have cut themselves out of despair.
At first pass, the statements seem hard to reconcile with the university's sizeable investment in the new biosafety lab, where much of Kurosawa's research would have been conducted.
Whatever the reason for distractibility, this segment of our society does exists and needs to be recognized as an underlying problem and not be given a pass through statements like "their fears are being stirred".
We sat in their receiving room, and the adults passed around statements ("Kinshasa is strange"; "Kinshasa is really small") as if handing around a sugar bowl.
His remote students will get the same lectures as students paying $50,000 a year, the same assignments, the same exams and, if they pass, a "statement of accomplishment" (though not Stanford credit).
But whether the offensive he described comes to pass, his statement portrayed the Iraqi Kurds as fighting on the side of the United States as they seek a role in a Iraqi government free of Saddam Hussein.
