Sentence examples for policy tests from inspiring English sources

The North Korean rocket presents one of the first foreign policy tests for Xi Jinping, the new Chinese leader.

In one of his first foreign policy tests since becoming Russia's president, Dmitri A. Medvedev said this week that Russia intended to retaliate.

New Jersey's residents deserve to see these two candidates not in their soft and expensive television ads but in debates that are not choreographed to shield them from tough policy tests.

Such statistics dramatize what M.G.I. calls the unprecedented policy tests posed by the speed of urban development — a seismic shift for a nation that takes pride in its rural identity.

The issue presents one of Mr. Obama's biggest political and policy tests yet as he appears headed toward a general-election contest against Senator John McCain of Arizona: How to continue to add nuance to a policy argument that he views as a winning one, without playing into a fierce round of accusations that he is either shifting positions or appeasing the enemy.

Science, nutrition, fat, and policy: Tests of the critical fat hypothesis.

That question of commitment poses the new government's biggest foreign policy test yet.

Under the current policy, testing is only done when there is a "reasonable suspicion" someone is using banned substances.

For Hollande, the intervention in Mali represents the biggest foreign policy test he has faced since becoming president in May.

But it was the planned missile deployment, a possible early foreign policy test for Mr. Obama, that captured attention in the West on Wednesday.

The moves, which came hours after the United Nations Security Council chastised North Korea for violating a United Nations resolution, pose a nettlesome foreign policy test for the Obama administration.