Sentence examples for popularity test from inspiring English sources

Austerity may pass the political popularity test, but it fails the real-life economic one.

• Recently, M&M's introduced products tentatively, either by offering limited-edition candies or by using a movie tie-in as a popularity test.

The upcoming elections are essentially a popularity test for one man, and he is taking every step to make sure he wins.

Putting aside his bruised ego, Watson will know that winning the Masters is not a popularity test and he has a chance to make history this week.

The parliamentary vote was both a popularity test for opposition hopefuls and a way for Mr Shevardnadze to influence the succession.

As the decision remarks, with a nice withering turn, this makes gun legislation a "popularity test"; if enough people had machine guns, you would have to legalize machine guns.

The elections, which were spread across 25 countries over four days, were less a referendum on Europe's future than a series of local popularity tests for hundreds of parties and thousands of politicians.

De Gaulle took a four-day "popularity-test" trip to southwestern France, where he had been little loved in the Sept. referendum.

The last few days in Pakistan have demonstrated as clearly as ever that the contrast between the popularity of Test and one-day cricket here remains as stark as ever, probably more than in any other Test-playing country.

With the growth of the Indian Premier League in the early 21st century, it became the undisputed home of Twenty20 cricket and the financial hub of the international game, though the popularity of Test cricket has declined dramatically in India.

The game's governing body is banking on the excitement generated by the 3-1 series win to deliver a multimillion-pound boost to sponsorship revenues, boost ticket sales, encourage more people to play the game, and even help re-establish the popularity of Test cricket.