Sentence examples for as a decisive test from inspiring English sources

Closer to home, critics of Corbyn had set the vote as a decisive test for the new leader.

In that sense, the strategically trivial question of intermediate nuclear forces now looms as a decisive test of the superpowers' capacity to find common ground.

Study of the spectrum of an object provides a decisive test as to whether it is composed of unresolved stars (as are galaxies) or glowing gas.

But at a time when "Europe is going through turbulent times and faces what may be a decisive test of its unity," as Martin Schulz put it bluntly in his opening address, EU leaders thought turning themselves towards Francis could be helpful when facing reluctant -- if not Eurosceptic -- public opinions.

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan faces a decisive test of his pledge to reduce corruption and cronyism when he names members of his new government as early as Tuesday, Afghan and Western officials say.

A decisive test for the prime minister, according to senior Tories, will be whether the DUP accept any changes as sufficiently binding.

Whenever big European questions have been put to a decisive test, they have been defeated.

Newtown has become a decisive test of whether second-term Obama is different.

Thereby we put the event chains to a decisive test asking how powerful is action classification when using this framework.

Extremely vulnerable to motion artifacts, resting state fMRI represents a decisive test for non-invasive head restraint systems.

BERLIN — The divisive international bailout deal for Cyprus, with its heavy burden for individual savers, has emerged as a potentially decisive test for the German-led push for discipline and austerity in the currency union.