Sentence examples for more serious test from inspiring English sources

There could be no starker or more serious test of the bishop's call for cultural change than Sir Martin Moore-Bick's inquiry.

A more serious test is now being carried out by Arizona Public Service, that state's power utility, at its Redhawk plant.

Though the government won this vote, it faces an even more serious test in November, when Parliament will be asked to approve continuing participation in the United States' effort to curb terrorism.

The idea had an early field test on Obama's 2006 trip to Africa, and a more serious test last summer, when he and an entourage that included most of his principal foreign-policy aides toured the Middle East and Europe.

PARIS, Feb. 1 - The delicate relationship between the United States and France has withstood freedom fries and frosty friendship, but now it may be facing a more serious test: disappearing French tourists.

In this tough environment Sime Darby faces a more serious test than most of its rivals.

Fiction for young people had been moving that way for years… getting older, getting more serious, testing the waters.

If 60 players out of 1,183 on major league rosters test positive, a more serious testing program will go into effect next year, and the White Sox players hoped to trigger that testing.

"We stand behind our union, and they're behind the players," Zito said today of the abortive move to refuse testing, which was an attempt to force more serious testing next year.

In announcing that Major League Baseball will conduct more serious testing of every player for steroids next season because more than 5percenttesteded positive this year, Rob Manfred, its executive vice president for labor relations and human resources, called the level of use "relatively low".

Phelps was suitably nonchalant afterwards - "I did everything I needed to do" - and stressed he had been saving himself for more serious tests, although he was subsequently spared from the 4 x 100m relay heats in which the US team set another new world record without him.