Every cycle you are expected to come up with ideas that can pass muster with your peers and the editors.

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Moffett notes that both companies are confident the deal can pass muster, noting among other things that German-owned T-Mobile will become American-owned.

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Portugal may be denied its next tranche of rescue money if Lisbon doesn't come up with fiscal measures that can pass muster with the country's Constitutional Court.

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New York can and should satisfy itself whether these deals pass muster.

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To be sure, calculating those scenarios--and getting them to pass muster with the insurance companies--can get hairy in a hurry.

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In this way, they can promulgate laws and judicial rulings that would simply never pass muster with the American people or a majority of their elected representatives.

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