Sentence examples for test by fire from inspiring English sources
But public support for that ideal has yet to undergo a test by fire of the sort Mr. Zuma could pose, at least in theory.
Bishop Park also read a Bible verse, about overcoming adversity, containing the phrase "tested by fire".
"When an investor is looking for an opportunity, if [the entrepreneur] has been tested by fire, you might say they become a better risk, because the people who fail and keep on pushing invariably have learned from their past failures".
To be fair, I didn't know what MMA was, only some type of fighting - but I knew that some forms of trial by ordeals involved physical tests (such as trial by fire, where the accused was to walk across boiling hot rocks. If their feet healed, they were innocent; if their feet didn't heal, they were guilty).
Yet nearly everyone I met in Dhaka spoke of the traffic as a trial by fire, a test of mettle, a horror that is also a perverse source of pride.
This is a stripped-down, modernized variation on what happens to Sita, whose absolute love for Rama is repaid with suspicion, a humiliating trial by fire (to test her purity) and banishment.
The ordeal by physical test, particularly by fire or water, is the most common.
After the shaped charge was designed and analyzed, it was fabricated and field tested by firing it into Tuff rock.
The armor of one vehicle was tested by firing at it with shells between 100 and 152 mm calibre.
— David Grann, "Trial by Fire," September 7 , 2009
