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Last Tuesday's ruling by Massachusetts' highest court in favor of gay marriage will put personal relationships as well as political principles to an unprecedented test.

Nativists are distracting America from the real task, which is to make Hispanic integration a success.An unprecedented test of social mobility looms.

The guardians of the Wimbledon grass face an unprecedented test this summer, with two tournaments at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and less than three weeks between them.

Their discovery of the first binary pulsar, PSR 1913 + 16, provided an unprecedented test of Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation, which, according to the general theory of relativity, predicts that objects accelerated in a strong gravitational field will emit radiation in the form of gravitational waves.

And the most attractive medicine on offer looks like cash.In this section Desperately seeking a cash cure Accounting for concern Reprints Related items Citigroup: A supertanker in troubleNov 20th 2008 Audits: Accounting for concernNov 20th 2008Hoarding for hard timesPreserving cash in such formidable times will present managers with an unprecedented test of their skills.

The 11 March 2011 Tohoku Earthquake provides an unprecedented test of the extent to which Coulomb stress transfer governs the triggering of aftershocks.

To accommodate the new workflow and the unprecedented testing demand, medical laboratory technologists from other laboratories in the PHMRL were cross-trained.

All of India will be agog to see if its legendary veteran, Sachin Tendulkar, does well enough against Australia's fast bowlers so he can push on toward an unprecedented 200 test matches.

Later, as the storm clouds gathered in the north-western sky and West Indies followed on 318 behind England's 470, Chris Gayle, unencumbered by pressure now, belted six boundaries from Matthew Hoggard's second over with the new ball, wickedly powerful strokes the lot of them and all round the wicket, and a feat unprecedented in Test history.

He made the first of an unprecedented 51 Test centuries in his ninth match the following year, against England at Old Trafford, although his now infamous failure to reach three figures at Lord's will remain a rare blot on his copybook.

Nonetheless, it would still set up an unprecedented legal test of the power of American sports-league commissioners to impose their will on troublesome owners.And even if Mr Sterling does go gently into that good night, the episode has still brought the NBA's fraught race relations into high relief.