Sentence examples for passed up in from inspiring English sources

Solar panels, used in the past Mars missions, were passed up in favor of a space battery for powering the car-size Curiosity robot.

It only grew thicker over the course of the evening, as Brandon Jennings — the point guard the Knicks passed up in the June draft — burned them again and led the Milwaukee Bucks to a 114-107 victory.

If the black person is passed up in favor of the white person, something blacks say happens all the time, the driver will be issued a summons suspending his hack license.

A chance to win this group was passed up in Switzerland, Basel completing a deserved double over the Europa League holders, even if Schalke's goalless draw in distant Bucharest edged Chelsea through regardless.

Oplontis The little-visited archaeological site of Oplontis, on the coast 30km south of Naples, is usually passed up in favour of Pompeii and Herculaneum, although they were all buried in the same 79AD volcanic eruption.

Four chances had been passed up in the opening 10 minutes before the game's solitary goal was bundled in, apparently by Demba Ba, though the visitors' Daniel Georgievski appeared to have had the clearest touch.

Among eighth graders, 5percentt passed, up from about 1percentt in 2003.

We passed up great chances and especially in the second half.

In other words, when Giants receivers tip passes up in the air, Cushing is the top candidate to catch them.

That sounds like a deal that no responsible elected official should pass up in the quixotic hope that the reform law will somehow go away.

(It was a mere aberration that he led the league with 25 interceptions last season; about half of those picks were a consequence of receivers tipping passes up in the air or running bad routes).