The phrase "a powerful test of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an evaluation or assessment that is significant or impactful in determining the quality or effectiveness of something.
Example: "The new software update serves as a powerful test of the system's capabilities under high demand."
Alternatives: "a significant evaluation of" or "a rigorous assessment of".
With President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia now openly intent on a military showdown over control of Crimea, the government faces a powerful test of Ukraine's territorial integrity.
Such an appeal would create a powerful test of wills between the cardinal and the priest, who was removed as director of fund-raising for the archdiocese and as pastor of St. Raymond's parish in the Bronx in May 2002.
The tar sands' oil deposits may be a treasure trove second in value only to Saudi Arabia's, and the pipeline, as McKibben saw it, posed a powerful test of America's resolve to develop cleaner sources of energy, as Barack Obama had promised to do in the 2008 campaign.
Crossing it, environmentalists believed, meant entering a more perilous phase of "extreme energy". The tar sands' oil deposits may be a treasure trove second in value only to Saudi Arabia's, and the pipeline, as McKibben saw it, posed a powerful test of America's resolve to develop cleaner sources of energy, as Barack Obama had promised to do in the 2008 campaign.
Indeed, in less understood habitats such as the Grand Canyon, attempts at restoration are proving to be a powerful test of the accuracy of ecological theory.The first mitigation banks appeared at the start of the 1990s, as a result of regulations drawn up by the country's Environmental Protection Agency for the granting of permits for the removal of wetlands.
The truth is that we've just had a powerful test of the Keynesian proposition that when monetary policy isn't available, changes in government spending move the economy in the same direction – and the results of that test say that what has lately passed for policy wisdom is instead almost criminal folly.
Because complete genome assemblies are available for these species this study presents a powerful test for the use of aCGH as a tool to measure sequence divergence.
The model proved to be a powerful testbed for preclinical drug screening of candidate neuroprotective agents (Stefanova et al., 2008; Schapira, 2008).
Using a longitudinal design, we provide a statistically powerful test of the relationship between subjective stress (perceived stress, emotional distress) and immunity (T cell blastogenesis, natural killer cell cytotoxicity, [NKCC]) as individuals adjust to a severe stressor, a cancer diagnosis and its treatments.
The desire of a powerful test is articulated in a variety of ways.
In the presence of heterogeneity in effect sizes, Stouffer's method can provide a more powerful test of association than the inverse variance method (47).
