Sentence examples for a test devised from inspiring English sources

Just four months before the VW emissions scandal broke, the EU's three biggest nations mounted a push to carry over loopholes from a test devised in 1970 – known as the NEDC – to the World Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), which is due to replace it in 2017.

The S.A.T. was a test devised by a particular institution, by a particular kind of person, operating from a particular mind-set.

Then she stroked the sole of one of his feet, a test devised by the neurologist Joseph Babinski as a way to determine whether a patient's paralysis is organic or hysterical.

The system has been widely praised in international evaluations; in a test devised by the Program for International Student Assessment, Shanghai high-school students have repeatedly outranked their peers in the United States and throughout Europe.

Ammar Olabi, a graduate student in food science from Lebanon whose job includes analyzing the score cards, said that so far most of the dishes the tasters rated had passed a test, devised by the Army, for "hedonic value" or gustatory appeal.

This is based on a test devised by mathematician Alan Turing to determine whether machines can think and use natural language.

The test referred to by the dean of Greenwich Country Day (whose alumni include George HW Bush and the Winklevoss twins, but not Tammy Campbell) was the Draw-a-Person test devised by Florence Goodenough in the 1920s and now known as the Goodenough-Harris Draw-a-Person Test.

This is a tortured acronym that stands for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart", and refers to a notional test devised by Alan Turing, a British code-breaker and computer-science pioneer, in which humans test a machine to see if it can think.

For one thing, Yun and his small team of engineers (who were hired only after passing an exhaustive 20-hour programming test) devised a new type of crawler, which is a program that scans the Web and copies pages into a search engine's index.

Connolly and Culme-Seymour analyzed this exchange and concluded that it must have been a contorted "loyalty test" devised by Maclean.

The refugee crisis is like a diabolical stress test devised to expose simultaneously all the moral and political fault lines of the European Union.