We didn't quite pass the test in Copenhagen because we couldn't get an agreement on a long-term treaty - in other words everybody feeling bound in to a common strategy that would last for ten years.

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"We're seeing an increasing number of donations that don't pass the smell test, " Everson wrote.

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You know, for many people who are covering, would be covering stories like this, gentlemen, the Tea Party doesn't pass the laugh test for them.

NPR: With White House Bogged Down By Scandal, GOP Looks For Boost

Remember at the beginning we were going to have all these massive fraud programs, anything this big was going to -- and you know, there's been some mistakes and some of the programs don't really pass the smell test.

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Management felt selling such a basket of bad loans to an unwitting buyer didn't pass the "smell test" and they simply wouldn't do it.

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But that justification doesn't pass the constitutional sniff test.

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They don't just pass a fitness test at the start of the season.

BBC: Referees' boss wants Ferguson ban

Tony, a tough little Cockney from London's East End, wanted to be a jockey and didn't make it, but he managed to pass The Knowledge, the formidably difficult test for London taxi drivers, then buy his own taxi and earn a good living for himself and his family.

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Even the Republican National Committee is fending off a concerted effort to keep the party's money from candidates that don't pass a "purity" test.

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