Sentence examples for stark test from inspiring English sources

GEORGE BUSH faces a stark test of his claim to be a free-trade president.

The mutiny posed a stark test for the country's leadership, elected after two years of army-backed emergency rule.

LAS VEGAS — Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader and a symbol of the Democratic establishment, fought back a fierce challenge from Sharron Angle to win re-election on Tuesday in a contest that offered a stark test of the Tea Party against one of the most effective political operations in the nation.

"Whatever illusions are established will get their starkest test when the relationship shifts from online to offline," said Joseph B. Walther, an associate professor of communication at Cornell University who has studied transitions from virtual relationships to real ones.

"Two Boys" is also among the starkest tests New York has had of contemporary opera's ability to draw a wide audience.

If Segal's litmus test--a stark examination of economic, military, and political power--found Beijing wanting in the late 90s, today he would discover Pyongyang completely irrelevant.

And now the punishment is before the courts in what has become a stark legal test of the approach.

Meanwhile, in the song "Paper Jam" John Flansburgh, of the band They Might Be Giants, sees the jam as a stark moral test.

But most of his teammates will not care about those subtleties once the games begin, only that Pochman makes his kicks and passes a stark litmus test.

While graphic novelist Warren Ellis, a key re-inventor of Tony Stark over the past decade, calls Stark "a test pilot for the future," this version is losing altitude.

Gordon and Stark [20] tested sequence learning in autistic participants in two tasks, one with an 8-element, and the other a 4-element fixed sequence.