A more serious test is now being carried out by Arizona Public Service, that state's power utility, at its Redhawk plant.
The idea had an early field test on Obama's 2006 trip to Africa, and a more serious test last summer, when he and an entourage that included most of his principal foreign-policy aides toured the Middle East and Europe.
In this tough environment Sime Darby faces a more serious test than most of its rivals.
But a more serious test would come over US or Japanese surveillance flights through the ADIZ, or when Japan sends fighters into the airspace over the islands.
England's own qualifiers have proved routine, but this was billed as a more serious test of their resolve and credentials in the stirring surroundings of Parkhead - and Hodgson will feel this was a test they passed emphatically.
"We stand behind our union, and they're behind the players," Zito said today of the abortive move to refuse testing, which was an attempt to force more serious testing next year.
Fiction for young people had been moving that way for years… getting older, getting more serious, testing the waters.
In announcing that Major League Baseball will conduct more serious testing of every player for steroids next season because more than 5percenttesteded positive this year, Rob Manfred, its executive vice president for labor relations and human resources, called the level of use "relatively low".
Though the government won this vote, it faces an even more serious test in November, when Parliament will be asked to approve continuing participation in the United States' effort to curb terrorism.
Phelps was suitably nonchalant afterwards - "I did everything I needed to do" - and stressed he had been saving himself for more serious tests, although he was subsequently spared from the 4 x 100m relay heats in which the US team set another new world record without him.
