harsh test

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

It was a harsh test of musical endurance and virtuosity.

So a harsh test is what we call, it's in the book, the LAX test where you're stuck in the LAX airport for six hours.

Meanwhile, cotton fabrics coated with PFHEA-b-PGMA exhibited water contact angles higher than 150° and retained their water-repellency even under harsh test conditions.

But in attacking the problem directly by trying to cross the provincial border, Mr. Saakashvili has raised the possibility of armed conflict and put his young administration to a harsh test.

The quality of these EIS data varied from good to rather poor as the electrical feed through degraded in time due to the harsh test conditions, i.e., radiation, high temperature and high pressure solution with boric acid and lithium hydroxide.

For the inexperienced young swallow, this will be a harsh test of survival.

The prime minister's commitment to the centre will face the harsh tests of reality.

And, in many countries, it exposed governments to harsh tests and harsher criticism.And still no one knows just why it happened.

If that is true, that there is some higher value in climbing such mountains, then K2 provides a particularly harsh testing ground.

But, in another decision that will disappoint advocates of harsh tests, regulators allowed banks to exclude bonds that they did not plan to sell.

In addition, Antarctica's harsh testing environments showed promise for developing technologies that might one day allow a space probe to penetrate alien ice sheets to reach and sample the oceans below.