Sentence examples for extraordinary test of from inspiring English sources

With such strong emotions in a close-knit community, this will be an extraordinary test of Norway as a nation and the quality of the Norwegian legal system.

Janet Hook writes in the Los Angeles Times: "The cascade of troubling developments in Iraq has posed an extraordinary test of President Bush's leadership, forcing him to do several things that do not come easily to him...

The assessment overnight is that he is still in there with a fighting chance to secure the agreements he seeks – but it is going to be an extraordinary test of his still relatively unknown diplomatic skills.

Instead, it is subjecting its weaker member states to an extraordinary test of their resilience, and conducting an increasingly perverse experiment in seeing how much stress liberal norms can bear.

Los Angeles County sought an injunction against Sheriff Alex Villanueva on Monday over his reinstatement of a deputy who was fired in connection with allegations of domestic abuse, setting off an extraordinary test of wills between the county's governing body and a newly elected sheriff who has vowed to rebuild the department.

"Mundane tasks became extraordinary … a test of nerves".

It's extraordinary how it's stood the test of time.

Her candidacy will also be a test of whether the extraordinary energy coursing through Democratic politics at the federal level will also flow into state elections.

"In some respects we are at a higher level than in Formula One here, because we have no testing restrictions and we do an extraordinary amount of testing, which I am only used to doing in the crazy Formula One days from 2000 to 2005," Wurz said.

Several dozen have stood the test of time exceptionally well – and give an extraordinary impression of what Sardinian Bronze Age military architecture looked like.

It's quite extraordinary to go into these and see how well they have stood the test of time.