Sentence examples for test of survival from inspiring English sources

The race for governor was widely viewed as a critical test of survival for the PRI.

It was a test of survival marked by bursts of power, including a three-run upper-deck homer by Hideki Matsui that put the Yankees ahead to stay in the sixth.

The start time was moved forward an hour to avoid possible thunder squalls moving into Cleveland, and the opening temperature of 43F made it more a test of survival in hard elements.

Now "Dinner With Friends" is out there on its own, facing the real test of survival: the measure of lasting value as dramatic literature, and as theater for people everywhere.

Mr. Lancry said Iraq was a "dictatorship, a serial violator of Council resolutions and human rights," compared with Israel, "a democracy put to the test of survival for decades".

It was a test of survival.

Much of the destruction can be accounted for by the stiff, 20-knot-plus onshore easterlies that thrashed the Florida shoreline during the race's initial stages, turning the launching and landing of the 20-foot cats through heavy surf into tests of survival.

Aspects of her that seemed coarse, simplistic, or combative during the campaign were revealed to be a product of frontier values and growing up in a culture that is faced with subzero temperatures and constant tests of survival.

Statistical significance was determined using Log rank tests of survival curves using the GraphPad Prism statistics software where p<0.05.

Median survival times were calculated for each group, and statistical analysis was carried out using the log rank tests of survival (GraphPad Prim Software).

Lifespan fit the expectations of gaussian distributions, therefore no transformation of lifespan data was necessary, however Chi-square significance values of log rank or Wilcoxon tests of survival were also determined and gave similar results (JMP; SAS Institute Raleigh, NC).