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"ref": "1996, Deposition Transcripts from the Committee Investigation Into the White House Office Travel Matter",
"text": "Did you, in fact, issue a hard pass to Mr. Shapiro? The Witness. I don't recall, but it would be easy to find out.",
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"ref": "1997, United States Congress Senate Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters, Investigation of Whitewater Development Corporation and related matters",
"text": "The reason I always wore my hard pass was because I was in charge partly of White House security.",
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"ref": "2007, Martha Joynt Kumar, Managing the President's Message",
"text": "In renewing passes, the Press Office and the Secret Service check how often the reporters have entered the White House in order to establish the need for such a credential. Now there are approximately 800 hard pass holders.",
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"ref": "2012, Nicolle Wallace, It's Classified: A Novel, page 32",
"text": "She still didn't have a hard pass, the official “all access ticket” to the West Wing. The hard pass signaled to the Secret Service that a complete background check had been turned in by the FBI.",
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"ref": "2003, The Indus Entrepreneurs, Essentials of Entrepreneurship",
"text": "A hard pass is usually pretty clear: It says that there is no way the VC will invest in your company.",
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"ref": "2016, Maisey Yates, Last Chance Rebel",
"text": "Thanks, but I'm going to take a hard pass on your blood money.",
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"ref": "2016, Kendall Ryan, The Fix Up",
"text": "Nope. That's a hard pass. I set her profile aside. I might be willing to set him up, but not with someone who's freaking perfect.",
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"ref": "1995, John Shorey, Hockey Made Easy : Instructional Manual, page 42",
"text": "A soft feather pass is easier to receive and control over a hard pass.",
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"ref": "1999, H.C. Dubey, Dph Sports Series-Football, page 164",
"text": "The player with the ball, X,, has his team-mate in sight and can deliver a hard pass to that player's feet.",
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"ref": "2006, Dick DeVenzio, Stuff Good Players Should Know: Intelligent Basketball from A to Z",
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"ref": "2012, Jim Hinkson, Lacrosse Fundamentals, page 31",
"text": "Throwing to an experienced player, a passer should throw a hard pass knowing he could catch it with no problem.",
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"ref": "1821, Sir Walter Scott, Kenilworth",
"text": "I need her prayers, for I am at a hard pass — Strange reports are abroad concerning my way of life.",
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"ref": "1873, Charles Gibbon, The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose",
"text": "\"It's a' true!\" exclaimed Bauldie Queech, in voice of great distress, \"it's an ower true tale, as I ken fu' weel, and fu' sadly, though I didna think to hae tauld what I ken o't to ony ane but the minister: but Rory, ye're a fearless and lang-headed chiel at a hard pass, and as ever ye did gude to a puir body at their wits' ends, ye maun e'en help me now.\"",
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"ref": "1885, National and English Review - Volume 5, page 25",
"text": "In the first the supernumeraries consist, on the one hand, of old actors and actresses, some of them of great ability, whom reverse of fortune has brought to this hard pass ; on the other, of ambitious young aspirants of the better class, who are, fortunately for them, undergoing a course of artistic training under Mr. Barrett's able tuition.",
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"ref": "1997, United States Congress Senate Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters, Investigation of Whitewater Development Corporation and related matters",
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"ref": "2003, The Indus Entrepreneurs, Essentials of Entrepreneurship",
"text": "A hard pass is usually pretty clear: It says that there is no way the VC will invest in your company.",
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},
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"ref": "2016, Maisey Yates, Last Chance Rebel",
"text": "Thanks, but I'm going to take a hard pass on your blood money.",
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},
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"ref": "2016, Kendall Ryan, The Fix Up",
"text": "Nope. That's a hard pass. I set her profile aside. I might be willing to set him up, but not with someone who's freaking perfect.",
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}
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"ref": "1995, John Shorey, Hockey Made Easy : Instructional Manual, page 42",
"text": "A soft feather pass is easier to receive and control over a hard pass.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, H.C. Dubey, Dph Sports Series-Football, page 164",
"text": "The player with the ball, X,, has his team-mate in sight and can deliver a hard pass to that player's feet.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Dick DeVenzio, Stuff Good Players Should Know: Intelligent Basketball from A to Z",
"text": "You don't throw a hard pass if you can throw it softly.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Jim Hinkson, Lacrosse Fundamentals, page 31",
"text": "Throwing to an experienced player, a passer should throw a hard pass knowing he could catch it with no problem.",
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"ref": "1821, Sir Walter Scott, Kenilworth",
"text": "I need her prayers, for I am at a hard pass — Strange reports are abroad concerning my way of life.",
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"ref": "1873, Charles Gibbon, The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose",
"text": "\"It's a' true!\" exclaimed Bauldie Queech, in voice of great distress, \"it's an ower true tale, as I ken fu' weel, and fu' sadly, though I didna think to hae tauld what I ken o't to ony ane but the minister: but Rory, ye're a fearless and lang-headed chiel at a hard pass, and as ever ye did gude to a puir body at their wits' ends, ye maun e'en help me now.\"",
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},
{
"ref": "1885, National and English Review - Volume 5, page 25",
"text": "In the first the supernumeraries consist, on the one hand, of old actors and actresses, some of them of great ability, whom reverse of fortune has brought to this hard pass ; on the other, of ambitious young aspirants of the better class, who are, fortunately for them, undergoing a course of artistic training under Mr. Barrett's able tuition.",
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