In low-lying areas, streets seemed passable only in kayaks.
I find translation almost impossible, but I persevere because the results seem passable.
Add Jill Grove's rich low register as the Omniscient Mussel and Bruce Donnell's fun, frothy direction of Act I, and the result seems like a passable rendering of a helplessly silly, completely unnecessary opera.
In this passable prequel to Pixar's magical 2001 film "Monsters, Inc.," anything and every being seems possible.
Even the so-called "micro four-thirds" D-SLRs, with sensors less than a third the size of a full-frame's chip, seem more than passable.
While major thoroughfares seemed at least passable, especially in Manhattan, streets across vast stretches of the city remained untouched, leaving tens of thousands of residents unable to get to jobs and many facing long waits for ambulances and other emergency services.
To appease the right wing of his right wing party who permit him to remain leader, he's had to tamp down all the qualities that made him seem like a passable candidate.
These statistics may point to the possibility of a troop drawdown strategy for the United States — but while a strategically passable outcome still seems within reach, it is increasingly hard to believe that there are the makings of a major success for American foreign policy in Iraq.
4. WRAP-UP/HOMEWORK: Individually, students use ideas in the Times article, from class discussion, and from their research to write response papers reflecting on the final statement in the article: "[W]hile a strategically passable outcome still seems within reach, it is increasingly hard to believe that there are the makings of a major success for American foreign policy in Iraq".
A powerful smartphone OS and (possibly) a passable netbook or tablet one, it seems like it may be a really good fit for embedded systems.
Mr. Obama doesn't say it quite this way, but the crux of his argument seems to be that you can always sit down and hammer out a passable deal to change the financing of Social Security or Medicare, but you can't just run out and build a national high-speed rail network whenever the thought finally occurs to you.
