Sentence examples for a decisive test of 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.

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

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.

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan faces a decisive test of his pledge to reduce corruption and cronyism when he names members of his new government as early as Tuesday, Afghan and Western officials say.

The Pentagon announced today that a decisive test of a national missile-defense system had again been delayed, increasing pressure on the project's managers to meet the Clinton administration's timetable for deciding whether to deploy the system.

Pakistani analysts and politicians said the fight for Mingora presented a decisive test of the military's ability to defeat the Taliban in Swat, a once popular scenic resort 100 miles from the capital, Islamabad.

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

To make a decisive test, a group of researchers carried out experimental reconstruction of Lomonosov's discovery of Venusian atmosphere with antique refractors during the transit of Venus on 5 6 June 2012.

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.

The confirmation of the biological relevance of nonlinear signaling by OFF midget cells awaits a decisive test in awake behaving animals.

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