Sentence examples for as a kind of testing from inspiring English sources

Their apartment serves as a kind of testing ground.

Although Jeffrey D. Sachs, a professor of economics at Harvard, doesn't see Europe as in the vanguard, he said his own recent experience as chief economist to Jubilee 2,000, the movement to forgive third-world debt, confirmed the general notion that Europe is acting as a kind of testing ground for ideas that have then caught on in the United States.

Designated by Louis XVIII in 1818 as a venue for the collection and display of the work of living artists, the Musée du Luxembourg acted as a kind of testing ground for recent art to judge its worthiness for admission to the permanent collection of the state.

You go as a kind of test of nerve.

As a kind of test, Rubin made some unusual demands.

Director Matthew Warchus describes the 10-week run at the Old Vic as "a kind of test drive".

The work of BAC was justified as a kind of test bed to produce shows, performers and ideas that would go on to make wealth-generating art.

As coalmines and coal-fired power plants close around the country, he sees Port Augusta as a kind of test case for how Australia will handle the transition.

"Phosphenes have been defined as a kind of test pattern of the visual system," said Robert Bednarik, a rock art expert in Australia.

And with so many prominent wealthy executives facing jail time, Mr. Taubman's situation may stand as a kind of test case for the etiquette of re-entry.

Mr. Brugger admitted that he was himself guilty of using Mr. Nossell, who suffers from spastic paralysis and uses a wheelchair, as a kind of test case.