But the damage Dubai has done to itself is no passing storm.
If a new study by research firm Latitude is any indication, this kind of integration between game and meaningful life moments is no passing fad.
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By passing the No Child Left Behind Act, you have made the expectation of literacy the law of our country.
Women have no problem passing along the latest deal on skinny jeans, or forwarding that Groupon for a great new restaurant.
Crossing the border from downtown L.A. into the strange country that springs up for 48 hours every year required passing through no fewer than seven police checkpoints.
The bill itself troubles me deeply, but just as troublesome to me is the process -- and the precedent -- of passing bills no one has read.
This has no chance of passing, and his continued insistence will poison the chance of any budget deal.
Mr Obama's plan has no chance of passing Congress in its current form.
The bass line kicked in with 420 lb ft of torque and we were passing drivers in no time.
"It's a big relief that no motorist was passing through our highway when boulders rolled down from the mountainside, " she said.
Beltway cynics say that the bipartisan deficit and debt reduction plans that are often cited have no chance of passing Congress.
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The fight broke out on the highway after 1 p.m. and while traffic was passing by, no one would stop to help them.
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Though this should be of no more than passing interest, Ms. di Florio repeatedly flirts with the question of lesbianism without providing the answer.
But there is no timetable for passing a new law.
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Republican senators are courting controversy with an amendment to the financial reform bill that has threatened to temporarily derail the debate, though it has almost no chance of passing.
Fierce opposition by the NRA and its allies in Congress -- mostly conservative Republicans but also some Democrats from gun-friendly states -- made clear that the universal checks sought by Obama had no chance of passing, leading to efforts by Manchin, Toomey and others to work out a compromise.
And there's no excuse for not passing these ideas.
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Passing this bill was no easy task.
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No child can advance without passing exams in both secular and religious studies, and instruction is in English and Arabic.
Nguyen and Ng were even more in the dark because they had no idea who Jiau was passing this information to.
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Without this, our individual experiences and perspectives could have led to us simply passing by each other with no real connection.
Fame and riches and the passing of years have made no difference.
No doubt I will be passing on various logistical tips and pointers.
"It is tragic enough that anyone has to leave this world with no one to mourn their passing, " Mr Mason wrote on Facebook.
And the reason for so many typos here is that almost no self-publishers are passing their work under the nose of an editor.
If we really want to put Americans to work, there is no better way than by passing long-term, well-funded versions of these important measures.
Fact is, Republican leaders become less significant with every passing year because they have no way of reversing the intellectual trends from above or the popular pressure from below.
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