The America's Cup will get its first chance to test its product with a United States audience this weekend, when a part of the World Series race in Newport, R.I., will be broadcast on NBC.
The case represents the court's first encounter with the free speech and association rights of American citizens in the context of terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks — and its first chance to test the constitutionality of a provision of the USA Patriot Act.
Alongside the launch with Marquee, last night was also my first chance to test out the Dubs in a real use-case scenario.
This controversy gave me my first chance to test my newly acquired militancy for a just cause.
All three clubs have new head coaches or GMs – or in Chicago's case, both – and this was the first chance to test their priorities.
City had passed the ball with great elegance during the opening exchanges but the game slipped away from them as soon as Salah's pass gave Roberto Firmino the first chance to test Ederson, the away team's goalkeeper.
In 1948, after her junior year at the University of California, Berkeley, Curtis competed in the London Olympics — the first Summer Games in 12 years (the Olympics had been suspended during World War II), and her first chance to test herself against the world's best swimmers.
The armory engagement will be the company's first chance to test out this moveable playhouse, but having recently built two new deep thrust auditoriums -- the Courtyard in Stratford, in which the company staged plays during construction, and another theater within the Roundhouse, its current London home -- the company already had some experience of temporary playhouses.
"It's going to be as interesting to me as it will be to the audience, I guess, since this'll be my first chance to test whether everything's in good working order.
But he was granted a second chance to take the test.
44th over: Australia 111-9 (Lyon 6, Hazlewood 4) Morkel gets a second chance to wrap up his Test career in style and despite a series of agonising play-and-misses from Lyon the edge eludes him.
