Sentence examples for a decent test for from inspiring English sources

Samoa looked one of the few representatives of the so-called 'next tier' of countries still able to provide a decent test for the leading nations.

For that reason it has been labeled by David Lewis the problem of temporary intrinsics (Lewis 1986, 202 205) A decent test for distinguishing between extrinsic and intrinsic properties is this.

There is nothing riding on the game for England but it will still be a decent test.

It would make a decent Test side.

After the Bucks Free Press he went on to the Western Daily Mail, and by 1973 he'd jumped across the fence to be a PR man for the nuclear-power industry—a decent early test for his powers of imagination.

"I would say a decent litmus test for technological competence would be being able to set up your home's wireless router," Blank says.

I fought financial barriers for decent test scores.

"Liberals agree with Samuel Johnson that a decent provision for the poor is the true test of a civilization".

History books and newspaper archives contain plenty of stories about serial "maneaters" that have gotten a "taste for blood". But there's no research to back that up, for a decent reason: To test whether an animal that preyed on a human is likely to repeat the behavior, you'd have to wait to see if it attacks a person again.

They work well as for sterile, laboratory testing, but don't always offer a decent stand-in for real world usage.

The plaintiffs made a decent case for a systemic problem.