Sentence examples for major tests of from inspiring English sources

The Indiana and North Carolina primaries have emerged as major tests of political strength for both candidates.

One of the first major tests of this idea was published in the British medical journal the Lancet in 1989.

For performers, producers and audiences alike, Wagner submits opera houses to major tests of endurance, resources and a sheer structural tolerance for great weights both physical and mental.

France's debt sale, which came on the heels of a big German auction Wednesday, marked one of the first major tests of market demand in the new year for the bonds of embattled euro zone governments.

There were two more major tests of obscenity laws: William Burroughs's "Naked Lunch," published in Paris by Olympia and in New York by Grove, and "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," otherwise known as "Fanny Hill," which is the first book known to have been convicted of obscenity in the United States, back in 1821.

The capsizing is one of the first major tests of a tough new policy announced last week by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd aimed at discouraging the thousands of asylum seekers who set out every year in often unsafe, crowded vessels for Christmas Island, a remote territory in the Indian Ocean that is Australia's closest point to Indonesia.

"It will be a major test of the two candidates".

This year will mark a major test of his staying power.

Duke was a major test of North Carolina State's status.

The elections will present a major test of the emerging security set-up.

This year is seen by the City as the major test of Garnier's strategy.