She had to be pulled out of fifth grade because she could not pass the test for 7-year-olds -- a first grade level.
Although a rose by any other name may smell just as sweet, the new way of how we define government support to small businesses may not pass the smell test.
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But others simply do not pass the smell test.
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Trying to dress up the Ground Zero mosque or any other aspect of this brutally repressive, totalitarian and inherently unconstitutional program as a matter of "religious freedom" does not pass the giggle test.
In sum, it appears Googleopoly has grown so accustomed to being able to dictate to everyone which information they should accept as most relevant, that they have scant self-awareness when their message does not pass the laugh test with a principled audience that was not born yesterday.
If the only place you study is here in class, you're not going to pass the test.
The gravest deficiency is that the PLO has the ability to dominate, directly or indirectly, the Palestinian Arab participants - and the PLO does not pass the good intentions test.
In February, the governor guided a bill through the state Senate that would hold back pupils who did badly in their subjects and could not pass the statewide standardised test.
What's at stake, what's being said that's at stake really does not pass the straight-face test.
Unfortunately, the tax cuts that are in the current package do not pass the supply-side test.
Decades after the event, nearly half of those who did not pass the grammar school entry test said it brought back negative emotions.
At a time, where most agree that government is over reaching and when the economic bright spots are our innovation sectors, it seems incredible that this inane proposal choking a fast-developing new technology with an old technology would not pass the hee-haw test.
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'We have carefully considered the details of this case, and the legal position is clear - the charity must take steps so that it does not discriminate unlawfully and can pass the charity test.
The bad news: The new Genentech test did not reach statistical significance, meaning that it does not pass a mathematical litmus test to prove beyond a doubt that the result was not based on chance.
While you sweated over the whether or not the desserts would pass the mother-in-law test or the turkey would make Martha Stewart proud, no one really cared about the minute details.
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Nowadays it is not always enough for a child to pass the 11-plus entrance test.
And others that would pass the test, such as corporate tax cuts, are not in the package.
"In assessing those recommendations, we will need to test not only whether the proposals are in the financial interest of the Welsh people but also whether they pass the test of enabling an equitable and sustainable financial settlement for the whole of the UK, " Mr Smith said.
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