Such an appeal would create a powerful test of wills between the cardinal and the priest, who was removed as director of fund-raising for the archdiocese and as pastor of St. Raymond's parish in the Bronx in May 2002.
The tar sands' oil deposits may be a treasure trove second in value only to Saudi Arabia's, and the pipeline, as McKibben saw it, posed a powerful test of America's resolve to develop cleaner sources of energy, as Barack Obama had promised to do in the 2008 campaign.
The truth is that we've just had a powerful test of the Keynesian proposition that when monetary policy isn't available, changes in government spending move the economy in the same direction – and the results of that test say that what has lately passed for policy wisdom is instead almost criminal folly.
Indeed, in less understood habitats such as the Grand Canyon, attempts at restoration are proving to be a powerful test of the accuracy of ecological theory.The first mitigation banks appeared at the start of the 1990s, as a result of regulations drawn up by the country's Environmental Protection Agency for the granting of permits for the removal of wetlands.
We have already developed a number of phylogenetic predictions that are just beginning to provide powerful tests of coevolutionary hypotheses.
The most powerful test of trend dynamics is one involving direct comparisons of large numbers of ancestor descendant pairs (Fig. 10; McShea 1993; Alroy 2000; Wang 2005).
New data from sources unavailable in previous decades is rapidly accumulating in fields as diverse as human and nonhuman genetic diversity, isotope analyses, archeology and paleoecology, such that powerful tests of these hypotheses are now, or soon will be, directly testable.
The economic downturn has been a powerful test of every company's risk-management capability, but that testing has taught us all lessons we can use to create stronger, more integrated and better-aligned platforms for improving performance under all sorts of business conditions.
The team reports its findings today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Mark Hauber, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, calls the experiments "powerful" tests of the long-held belief that cuckoos are indeed mimicking the plumage of sparrowhawks.
