Sentence examples for the existing tests from inspiring English sources

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 NHS has screening programmes for cervical cancer and bowel cancer but has resisted pressure to screen for prostate cancer because the existing tests are considered not sufficiently accurate – ie carry too high a risk of over-diagnosis and unnecessary treatment.

In addition, the existing tests looked at a mixture of dispersants and fuel oil, not the crude oil now gushing into the gulf.

We demonstrate that the existing tests are unable to adequately discern between a change in persistence and a constant I(1) process.

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

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.

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).