For the world at large, this first-ever domestic genocide trial of a former head of state is a high profile test of whether national courts and governments, not just international tribunals, can fulfill their responsibility to pursue justice for grave crimes.
The case will be one of the highest profile tests of the still relatively new Chinese restructuring law, which was intended to incorporate the best features of British-American corporate bankruptcy law.
The ceremony was the highest profile test yet of Olympic queues and security, but with fewer members of the public in the stadium than for the dress rehearsals, the London organising committee said queues to clear body and bag checks were shorter than for fans attending on the busiest days of competition.
The Google Print Ads program, along with two similar efforts by Google to sell ads on television and radio, were seen as high-profile tests of the company's ability to bring the efficiencies of its automated marketplace for online ads to large, and sometimes, inefficient advertising markets.
BitPay has also had some high-profile tests with clients like Zynga and Branson already.
Google this week fired off one of the first high-profile tests of Russia's controversial new firewall — erected November 1, 2012 to block child porn, drugs and suicide content; but seen by critics as a route for the government to block whatever else it chooses.
Now that law could be getting a high-profile test.
Iran was the first high-profile test of that strategy.
In May, the National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, a group affiliated with Boston College, issued a report documenting 50 high-profile testing mistakes that had occurred in 20 states from 1999 through 2002.
The limitations of the Football Association's newly adopted powers to take retrospective action have been exposed in the first high-profile test after Fernando Torres escaped a violent conduct charge for scratching Jan Vertonghen in the face.
The Narmada project has become a high-profile test of conflicting views about big dams in the developing world: Do the benefits they bring outweigh the loss of the forests and villages that they submerge?
