Sentence examples for the chief test from inspiring English sources

There after all, in that vocal quality, is the chief test of good writing.

The chief test of the musicians' resourcefulness was learning to play the music in sync with the films.

(C. L. Morris, the chief test pilot for Igor Sikorsky, another helicopter pioneer, had received the first helicopter license, in March 1942).

Curtis did, eventually, pass her test flight but, while backed by the chief test pilot, did not get the job, since "all hell broke loose".

Sitting in the flight deck on Monday was David Burns, the chief test pilot, who flew the one, short, virtually unrecorded sortie of the prototype Airlander, conducted in secret at a US military facility in New Jersey in 2012.

"Every single year I've been in testing there has been more cheating than the year before," said John Fremer, 71, a Caveon co-founder who was once the chief test developer for the SAT.

"The chief testing the master headset at 9 05 a.m. did not realize that the master handset had not been activated," the statement said.

What to do with the Uighurs has become one of the chief tests of Barack Obama's sincerity in promising to shut Guantanamo Bay and do right by its inmates.

After World War II the ability of a government to regulate or control the economy became one of the chief tests of its success, and regulatory agencies multiplied to the point at which they are now often referred to as "the fourth branch of government".

In May 1997, Captain David Tribout, American Airlines' designated expert on the A-300, wrote to the Airbus chief test pilot expressing concern about an American Airlines pilots' class on recovering from aircraft upsets.

He proposed that if I were open to it, he would arrange for Goodwin, the McLaren chief test driver, to take the wheel.