Sentence examples for test the resilience from inspiring English sources

The immigration debate will test the resilience of the reform coalition in Congress.

His lawyer, Jan Romanowski, suggested the computer attacks were meant only to test the resilience of the target sites.

It's like Tuymans, famous for generating poetic intensity while painting about very little, to execute the occasional shocker (a Holocaust gas chamber, once), as if to test the resilience of both his style and his audience.

To test the resilience of the financial sector, the Bank of England created a hypothetical scenario in which economic growth plunges, the housing market crashes, and inflation and unemployment soar.

That is sure to test the resilience and depth of the team that currently sits fourth in the Premier League as they strive to avert the ignominy of missing out on Champions League qualification.

"Everybody has been living beyond their means for nearly the last decade, so it is an adjustment that will be painful and long, and it will test the resilience of societies socially and politically," said Nicolas Véron, a fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels research group.

Insurgents have spent the summer testing the resilience of the government's army and police, unleashing some of the worst violence since the war began.

In some areas of the country, insurgents have spent the past months testing the resilience of government forces, who lack the international support of the past, especially air power.

But rising extremism and ebbing hope that the war in Syria will soon end are increasingly testing the resilience of Lebanese, many of whom are now talking of leaving.

With the markets also testing the resilience of another two south European single-currency countries – Portugal and Spain – Angel Gurria, head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, waxed apocalyptic, comparing the Greek collapse and its wider impact to the ebola virus.

Network Rail's chairman Richard Parry-Jonesaidid: "With so much going on at the moment and the atrocious weather affecting our customers and testing the resilience of both our people and the network, [we] thought it best Mark get his feet under the table sooner rather than later.