"decisive test" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a test or examination that is very important in determining something or making a final decision. Example: The final project for this course will be a decisive test of your knowledge and understanding of the subject material.
THE decisive test of Junichiro Koizumi's decision to send troops to Iraq was bound to come from events on the ground.
A12 U.S. Missile Test Delayed The Pentagon said the next decisive test of a national missile defense system, planned for June 26, had again been delayed by a wiring problem, increasing pressure on the project's managers to meet the Clinton administration's timetable for deciding whether to deploy the system.
PAGE A20 Key Missile Test Put Off The Pentagon announced that a decisive test of a national missile-defense system has once again been delayed.
Just two days later came a more decisive test.
Whenever big European questions have been put to a decisive test, they have been defeated.
As Andrade wrote in his manifesto, "Joy is the decisive test".
After a check — New Hampshire's convention adjourned without voting — and wins in Maryland and South Carolina, the Constitution faced three decisive tests: Virginia, the largest, proudest state; New York, at the time with a mid-size population but centrally located; and a revote in New Hampshire.
It will also allow for decisive tests of a number of alternative theories, denoted as 'collapse models' predicting notable deviations from the predictions of quantum theory within the parameter regime tested.
We contrast the observational predictions of the two models and argue that only the very early afterglow observations, almost coincident with the prompt phase, can be used as decisive tests of the ejecta content.
The figure shows that, by investigating wave-packet expansion, MAQRO can, in principle, perform decisive tests of the CSL model even with the originally suggested parameters [27, 55], and MAQRO could test the quantum gravity model of Ellis and others [62, 63].
For these reasons, the most decisive tests of the kin conflict theory are not which taxa will be imprinted or which specific genes will be imprinted.
