Sentence examples for passing papers from inspiring English sources

"I had all these stacks of papers at the closing," she told me, "and they were just passing papers back and forth to me, back and forth, telling me to sign.

"I – and I suspect most members of parliament – would find it extraordinary that a bank that is domiciled in this jurisdiction with oversight of its Swiss subsidiary has not had action taken against it either by its regulator or by you, who are responsible for investigating it and passing papers to the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] to conduct criminal prosecutions if appropriate".

It is his way of claiming that he was not responsible for the Vatileaks fiasco, which ended up in the sentencing of Pope Benedict's butler for hoarding and then passing papers to journalists that showed the Vatican under Bertone was riven with faction and intrigue.

He will need all his charms and probably an arsenal of baseball bats too – with a majority of only 12, getting any Brexit deal through Parliament will make the 90s Tory Wars over Maastricht seem like a day passing papers between your children.

As each deadline for that part of the house-buying-and-selling ceremony called "passing papers" came and went, we would call the Woodworth children and anxiously reiterate our plight, and they would reassure us that they would wait a little bit longer before putting the house on the open market.

But is instant messaging a greater threat to education than passing paper notes or staring out the window?

The thesis is what will receive the heaviest consideration from your teacher, and can mean the difference between a passing paper, and a great paper.

At first a slit was cut into the fence, for fans to pass papers to the players to sign.

Asking students to pass papers to the front of the room can be an invitation to chaos.

Assume that the average class passes papers out or back 20 times a day, and that they take 80 seconds to do it.

He later asked for details of a dossier compiled by the late MP Geoffrey Dickens, who claimed to have uncovered an Establishment paedophile ring and passed papers in the 1980s to the then Home Secretary, Leon Brittan.