Sentence examples for test clauses from inspiring English sources

The participants' response times were taken as the comprehension time required to match probe sentences and test clauses.

(Pinckney is also credited with inserting the "no religious test" clause into the Constitution).

They cherished the liberty established in early Rhode Island, and they played an important role in securing the adoption of the "no religious test" clause in the U.S. Constitution and the guarantees embodied in the First Amendment.

Apparently, the earlier congresses were familiar with that pesky "no religious test" clause in the Constitution, applying it even to the office of chaplain.

Curiously, though, the court did not base its ruling on the "no religious test" clause, which comes in Article VI, but determined that the First Amendment was enough to decide the matter conclusively.

We at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) couldn't agree more that the actions of the early congresses should be looked at in determining the meaning and legal reach of the First Amendment, and also of the clause in Article 6 of the Constitution commonly known as the "no religious test" clause -- the clause that is most relevant when discussing the issue of oaths.

Cain's staff backtracked from his comments, telling HuffPost that he did not explicitly say he would not appoint a Muslim -- which would be a violation of the Constitution's "religious test" clause in Article VI -- but that rather he was responding to a question about his feelings.

The first, which got little media attention, was that cadets were sent an email telling them that if they did not say these words their commissioning oath would not be legal, an obvious and blatant violation of the "no religious test" clause found in Article 6 of the Constitution.

In August 1986, the owners fired Roberts after he voided the drug-testing clauses they had forced on players without union talks.

The result was decades of new voting laws across the South requiring literacy tests, "grandfather" clauses that prohibited anyone from voting if their grandfather hadn't, and other "colorblind" policies whose main purpose was actually to keep people of one color from participating in our democracy.

The bid, though, tested the clause and revealed that Liverpool saw £40m as the point at which they must start to negotiate, not the point at which they are obliged to sell.