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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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.

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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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