There is a by-election next month, an acid test for the beleaguered Socialist government.
This scene from Working Girl brilliantly demonstrates the acid test of coherent narrative.
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The acid test for Spanish product will be to see how that demand holds up.
More importantly, the polls will be an acid test for the Congress, India's beleaguered ruling party.
"Thursday will be the acid test for Gianni and James, " Baggies manager Tony Mowbray told the club's website.
The acid test: will it feel natural when consumers pick this up and start trying to do presos on their iPad.
The acid test, however, was to gather data from species where the main burden of parental care falls on the male.
Used properly, these formulas can be an acid test to help a worker judge whether his or her retirement savings plan is on track.
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Clive Bates from Action on Smoking and Health said the government's backing of the Bill meant it had passed an "acid test of credibility".
But he says that the real acid test for exoskeletons of the future is whether the device can interpret the user's intent effectively into action.
Hashimoto's reform push will be the acid test of his leadership.
This sceanrio would be the ACID TEST of exactly what will be tolerated when the EZ leaders say they will do everything possible to save the Euro.
The really wonderful thing about loyalty and engagement assessments is that they correlate very, very, very highly with consumer behavior, which is the true marketplace acid test.
Michael had sketched with perfect strokes a California phenomenon much as another Eastern skeptic, Tom Wolfe, had done 33 years earlier with California crazies of a different bent in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
"The next few weeks will be an acid test for the host cities, " added Valcke, who has clashed with Brazilian authorities in the past when questioning the delay in preparations for FIFA's forthcoming events.
But the acid test will come at the 2004 Australian Open, when as a seeded player and a recent winner of a Masters title, Henman will be counted, if not as a favourite, a definite contender.
The teams went into the game level on 27 points, with only points difference keeping the Exiles in top spot in the table, and London Irish coach Toby Booth described the game as an "acid test" for his team.
To investigate whether acid reflux is involved at all, doctors can do a 24-hour pH test, inserting an acid-sensitive probe through the patient's nose into the esophagus, where it records any episodes of reflux.
Rory Collins, co-director of Oxford University's clinical-trials service unit (which demonstrated the efficacy of aspirin against heart disease) has managed to piggy-back on a commercial trial in order to test the notion that folic acid, a food-supplement commonly given to pregnant women, may also prevent heart attacks.
So right now we're looking to move from lead-acid to lithium-ion batteries and we're working with the US Navy on a test programme that would allow us to do that.
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After experimenting with more than a dozen different formulations, drying them with custom-made machinery and heating them in ovens to test shelf life, Nektar hit upon a successful recipe that mixes insulin with glycine (an amino acid), citrate (the salt of an organic acid found in humans) and mannitol (a sugar used in intravenous products).
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