Sentence examples for attempts to test from inspiring English sources

Attempts to test these predictions have met with mixed results.

Encounters with ghostly figures are taken as Kantian attempts to test the limits of reason itself.

There have already been some attempts to test what the agreement will now permit.

Defra acknowledges that its attempts to test public opinion about the future of the European sugar market appear to have been hijacked by a well-organised lobbying campaign.

It's really important to appreciate that the phonics check attempts to test skills that aren't reading and for it to work it faces some very revealing challenges.

Still, since the election the relationship between the two men has been strained by several attempts to test the limits of presidential power.

These were attempts to test the will of the international community and to see if murder of Tutsis on a mass scale would be tolerated.

Mr Freeman likened recent attempts to test inmates for alcohol to "a scene out of Benny Hill", with officers chasing prisoners for days on end.

North Korea faces UN sanctions over its 12 February nuclear test, and has been making aggressive military overtures – and sending warnings to South Korea – apparently as part of attempts to test the resolve of the south's newly elected prime minister.

Players who indulged in incidents off the ball knew that there was little chance that they would be detected and as Lions we knew there would be attempts to test our inner resolve.

All of which sets the stage for 12 hours of vigorous contention on Thursday, with landlord and tenant advocates from the audience taking turns in last-word attempts to test the limits of their allotted three-minute speaking times -- punctuated by vociferous support or derision from opposing factions in the crowd.