Sentence examples for test of city from inspiring English sources

In New York City, that means a countdown until your street is plowed, a test of city services that reaches into the remotest corner of every borough.

The mayor, top police officials and the regional director of the F.B.I. were not told about the letter until late June (nearly three months later), after a test of city water showed levels of plutonium-239 -- used in nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons and research laboratories -- nearly 200 times above the norm.

This could be a definitive test of City's mettle, in their first meeting with another of the league's top four sides (they have already lost to the side currently fifth, and are yet to beat a top-half team at home).

But to decipher the vagaries of the taxi roof light is to prove one's identity as a street-tested New Yorker, and any change to the design, which has been in place for decades, would eliminate what is considered one of the litmus tests of city citizenship.

Pooled test results of city wells, tested periodically since 1981, provided the data base for developing a statistical model for estimating C = f(T).

In a vote seen as a crucial test of the city's commitment to change and oversight of the city's police force, the Los Angeles Police Commission has ruled that an officer's shooting of a mentally ill homeless woman last year violated department policy.

"The test of the city is whether it keeps attracting rich people, important people," he said.

And it is a test of the city's willingness to think big.

But the test of the city's resilience has only begun.

I have only one test of any city or hotel or restaurant : "Will I go back?" Yes I will.

Last week, newspapers announced a test of the city's air-raid sirens, but it was called off for fear of alarming the public.