Sentence examples for a decisive test from inspiring English sources

PAGE A20 Key Missile Test Put Off The Pentagon announced that a decisive test of a national missile-defense system has once again been delayed.

Whenever big European questions have been put to a decisive test, they have been defeated.

Newtown has become a decisive test of whether second-term Obama is different.

Closer to home, critics of Corbyn had set the vote as a decisive test for the new leader.

Study of the spectrum of an object provides a decisive test as to whether it is composed of unresolved stars (as are galaxies) or glowing gas.

Such cases could be a decisive test of a relatively new area of American law that has given courts expanded powers to assess damages against foreign entities for violations of fundamental rights.

Just two days later came a more decisive test.

BERLIN — The divisive international bailout deal for Cyprus, with its heavy burden for individual savers, has emerged as a potentially decisive test for the German-led push for discipline and austerity in the currency union.

The officials said that a first test for anthrax proved positive but that a subsequent test showed no traces of anthrax and that a third more decisive test was expected to be concluded on Saturday morning.

This is, in a sense, not a crucial issue because the paper is a hypothesis, and the decisive test in any case remains to be done.

A12 U.S. Missile Test Delayed The Pentagon said the next decisive test of a national missile defense system, planned for June 26, had again been delayed by a wiring problem, increasing pressure on the project's managers to meet the Clinton administration's timetable for deciding whether to deploy the system.