Sentence examples for as proving grounds for from inspiring English sources
Sidney Myer, the booking manager at Don't Tell Mama, a cabaret space on West 46th Street in the theater district, described the Duplex and the Beechman — as well as the Metropolitan Room, Le Poisson Rouge, Joe's Pub and Cast Party at Birdland — as proving grounds for performers who come to New York with nothing more than a voice and a dream.
The grueling quest for singles success has made the subtle and routinely spectacular game of doubles a no-try zone for the leading men at Grand Slam tournaments, leaving only the Olympics, Davis Cup and the occasional tour event as proving grounds for their ability to play nicely with others.
They are exciting moments ripe with potential, acting as proving grounds for exhibitions-to-be and for establishing relationships with curators, gallerists, and collectors.
The chapters' plays were prepared in just one week each leading to the criticism that their presentations were "hasty and patchy", and the establishment of competitive auditions for the main Phil plays rendered obsolete the model of chapter plays as proving grounds for new actresses.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has identified 10 sites as officially designated proving grounds for autonomous vehicle testing in the U.S., including The Willow Run, Michigan-based American Center for Mobility; Concord, California's GoMentum Station; the City of Pittsburgh and more.
Tesla has been criticized over the last weeks for, as some say anyhow, offering its Autopilot semi-autonomous driving feature too early and using public roads as proving grounds.
This data set thus serves as an ideal proving ground for the approach of identifying functional constraint using massive amounts of polymorphism data, which will soon be available for nuclear genomes.
Videos also became a calling card and proving ground for young talents as diverse as Jonathan Demme and Michael Bay.
John Simon White, a mainstay of the Vienna-born triumvirate that steered the New York City Opera to its berth as an important repertory company and proving ground for young American singers, died last Tuesday in Sarasota, Fla., where he had moved from Manhattan in July.
