Sentence examples for a test of things from inspiring English sources

But take their philosophical measure: a stony refusal to believe that we ever know what we see, put to a test of things — dull houses, parked cars — that seem too obvious to merit even passing attention.

"It was a Test match, it was a test of many things, we've just got to stand up and say how we went today wasn't that good," Johnson told BBC Radio Scotland.

Kosovo is proving to be a test of many things, and one of them is whether a German Green can go to war with a steady heart for what he believes to be a deserving cause.

In a lot of professions, a job interview is essentially a test of one thing: how good you are at answering questions under pressure.

We'll have a test of that when things next threaten to fall apart".

E-mail isn't a test of your skills at making things look pretty; indeed, making things look pretty will only take time away from your goal of actually getting through your mail.

Since it's a test of will, the most important thing becomes not resolving the issue in a productive way, but demonstrating the implacability of our will.

The media talk shows and op-Ed pages are buzzing with excitement and commentators are heralding this 'historic election' as a barometer of many things; as a test of Islamism's new found strength, the durability of the Arab Spring, the acceptance of constitutional reforms and many wonderful things, but the common man in Morocco seems oblivious of this.

Making the TPP work for We, the People should be up there on our "litmus test" of things we require of our elected officials -- right along with pledging no cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

A test of grass-roots support is one thing.

PAGE B1 A TEST RUN FOR THE FREEDOM TOWER Two mockups of the Freedom Tower, the 1,776-foot 1,776-foot that will be on the skyscraperound zero, were subjecthatto simulations of earthquakes, hurricanes and explosions at twillites in the West, as a test of the hardiness of the real thing.