Sentence examples for passed the problem from inspiring English sources

Instead, Mr. Khamenei passed the problem up to the Expediency Council, which arbitrates disputes between Parliament and the Guardian Council.

Now, the government has passed the problem to the courts and police, who will have to enforce this muddled, wide-ranging and bizarre law.

Mr Proctor opted against this measure - known as black alert - because he knew it would just have passed the problem on to hard-pressed hospitals in the region.

Wall Street banks disguised the risk on their own books, passed the problem to investors, or bet against their own trash to make even more money.

"What we're doing is passing the problem of homelessness to another city.

That would pass the problem to the Spanish government, whose finances are under scrutiny, or to Europe's bail-out funds, whose firepower is more limited than advertised.

"The political message to neighbours is, 'It's your turn, you deal with it.' But that just passes the problem along," she said.

I am not a coward: I do not see this decision as running away and passing the problem to my successor.

If City Ballet filled the gap by renting the State Theater to American Ballet Theater, it would pass the problem to the Met, which books the company for eight weeks now.

Some Web 2.0 darlings (MySpace, YouTube) managed to find buyers before the bubble burst, thus passing the problem of finding a profitable business model to someone else (News Corporation and Google, respectively).

And Bush's policy shift last week suggests that he has come to the same conclusion as Johnson: Just do what you can not to lose and pass the problem on to your successor.