Sentence examples for primary test of from inspiring English sources

"Return on capital is the primary test of managerial ability," said Terry Smith, chief executive of Collins Stewart, a London brokerage firm.

In medieval times, in both Europe and the Orient, religion was the primary test of a person's allegiance to their ruler.

The primary test of the aftermath of the bishops' conference in Dallas last year is whether children have been abused since the proclamation of its charter.

But Saddam is a threat to international security the primary test of pragmatic policy.

It was based on a de-emphasis of the method-theory antimony (Bourdieu, 1992) such that the primary test of validity rested on the consistency between theoretical constructs and the data.

All logistic regression analyses were performed using the additive/allelic dosage model as the primary test of significance for each variant.

As Richard Hofstadter, who analyzed these movements better than any other historian, wrote in "The Age of Reform": "One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.

The primary tests of hydrotreating products revealed insignificant gases concentration of less than 0.124 % (a constant concentration, selectivity, of the products gases have been observed during experimentations).

Apart from the primary tests of expression, the Giardia U-snRNA candidates found here have not been extensively verified by biochemical methods.

We developed an indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) for primary testing of human serum.

Primary tests of association assumed a log-additive (multiplicative) genotypic effect, equivalent to the Armitage test for trend.