Sentence examples for the existing test from inspiring English sources

In turn, officials of the two unions have expressed reservations about the existing test, which they point out has caught only one athlete.

Like the existing test, the proposed test for administrative workers would also weigh whether their primary duty is to perform office or nonmanual work directly related to the management or general business operations of their employer.

In fact, the existing test is already the subject of complaints from the European Commission, the executive of the 27-nation bloc, which is threatening legal action against Britain, arguing that it breaches European agreements.

The richness of the existing test data is what gave this design its winning edge over an alternative proposed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (also in New Mexico, and which also had Sandia as a partner).

The new business, which will continue to use the G.E.D. Testing Service name, will not offer the new G.E.D. until 2014, but will begin to roll out computer-based versions of the existing test this spring in California, Florida, Georgia and Texas.

Item calibration is done either using the existing test data or by conducting an item pretest.

It is particularly exciting that we have such a high success rate in the detection of prostate cancer, for which the existing tests are woefully inadequate," Dr Guest said.

School superintendents from Westchester County -- home to some of the state's best schools -- have asked the State Education Department to suspend four new eighth-grade tests to be given this spring, arguing that the tests will overload students who have not yet adjusted to the existing tests.

"With the faltering results on the most recent administration of the tests already on line, would it not make more sense to focus the resources and energy of the state -- and the schools -- toward raising performance on the existing tests, rather than adding still more?" Mr. Chambers wrote.

The current research results may suggest future directions to enhance the existing testing standards.

Most of the existing testing programs for environmental chemicals primarily address the adult organism.