Sentence examples for passing the problem from inspiring English sources
"What we're doing is passing the problem of homelessness to another city.
I am not a coward: I do not see this decision as running away and passing the problem to my successor.
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).
To avoid swamping the secondhand market, or passing the problem on to others, including developing countries where many used clothes are sold in bulk, other technologies, such as fibre-to-fibre recycling, need to be encouraged.
And delinquent scions and illegitimate descendants of the nobility were sent as remittance men to the colonies, at a stroke removing blots on the escutcheons of those families and passing the problem to distant colonial authorities.Clive BruckmannBryanston, South AfricaSIR – We couldn't agree more with your solution of offshoring children.
PARIS — The eight most powerful industrialized nations failed to agree Tuesday on a no-flight zone or any other military operation to help the Libyan opposition, instead passing the problem to the United Nations Security Council by urging an undefined increase of pressure on the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
We believe in climate change, we don't believe in passing the problems of pollution to future generations and our focus will be on renewable energy and there is going to be no carbon tax".
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.
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.
