They did pass the test of time!
We only remember those who pass the test of time: the stars.
"A legal fee must pass the test of reasonableness," Justice Ramos wrote in October.
Do you think that the current group of "new writers" will pass the test of time?
Mr Lagos admits that this document "doesn't pass the test of democracy".
"It has to pass the test of deeds, not declarations," said Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Mr. Sharon.
Evidently, there were numerological prejudices in the ancient tuning that didn't pass the test of the ear.
If you can't pass the test of news knowledge, you can at least ace the test of Web fandom.
A clever scheme, perhaps, but not one that is likely to pass the test of the markets.
They pass the test of leadership for a major-league aesthetic: faring ahead without deigning to check whether you, or anyone else, is following.
Rushdie himself has written, with appropriate modesty, that "if it can pass the test of another generation or two, it may endure".
