Mr. MOTHERSBAUGH: Yeah, it was the one that was, like, the litmus test for us.
But when Warren put the litmus test question to his opponent, McCain got cheers.
But their eventual verdict on the fairness of the process will be the litmus test for foreign governments.
The litmus test for companies who want more women leaders is to make sure they have the same chance as men do to fail, Barsh said.
"Support for paycheck protection is the litmus test of whether we are serious and whether we are credible" about reform, Lott said on the Senate floor.
The quick litmus test is whether you are focused on what to do or how something should be done.
Similarly, the members of that group, using the same litmus test, may realize that their actions, though lacking intent, are likely to create a disruptive situation for their colleagues.
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Mr. Yeltsin -- and the Russian military-industrial complex and security apparatus to which he is increasingly beholden -- have asserted that the repeal of statutes derided as the "legacy of the Cold War" is a litmus test of the U.S. commitment to Russian reform.
The parliamentary vote is a litmus test for Libya in the post-Gadhafi era.
Ms. BALL: We always hear about the ethanol issue being the sort of litmus test in Iowa.
The euro fell by 1% against the British pound and twice as much against the Japanese yen while it is down by almost that amount against the Swiss franc in what many regard as a litmus test for the stability of the region.
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President Bush is playing host today to the leader of the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, in what some say is a litmus test of the president's so-called freedom agenda.
The zone is seen as a litmus-test of relations between the two countries, and analysts consider such an extended shut-down to be a considerable setback.
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Tea Party groups are determined to make returning to the gold standard a litmus test for GOP presidential candidates.
Applying a two-part litmus test, the court answered that question in the affirmative.
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Another litmus test is the extent to which Edmonton's ideas are being studied by educators from elsewhere (mostly the United States, but some also from Ontario and British Columbia) and are now being emulated.
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But on the whole the results of that sort of litmus test of friendship are much more positive than negative.
The bad news: The new Genentech test did not reach statistical significance, meaning that it does not pass a mathematical litmus test to prove beyond a doubt that the result was not based on chance.
"The Dongria's campaign became a litmus test of whether a small, marginalised tribe could stand up to a massive multinational company with an army of lobbyists and PR firms and the ear of government, " he said.
This issue, I think, is an intriguing litmus test of city agency in the face of macroeconomic shifts.
With the GOP primary contest down to Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, the debate has devolved into a personality and litmus test.
Whichever theory you think is right, with the No Glass Ceilings motif index, which returned 10.1% year to date, you get a litmus test for this tectonic sociological shift occurring in our society and economy through the progress of 19 companies currently headed by female chief executives.
Mr. RANDY SCHEUNEMANN (McCain's Foreign Policy Adviser): Senator McCain does approach his any proposed use of American force not with some kind of ideological litmus test but with a hard-headed assessment of what are the interests at stake, what are the values threatened, what can any proposed use of military achieve.
PS3 is a litmus test for Sir Howard's turnaround effort, one of the aims of which is to get Sony's various divisions to co-operate more fully. (A spat between its electronics and content units left the field open for Apple's iPod.) The company insists that despite recent problems such as the battery recall, the turnaround is going well behind the scenes.
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As The Economist went to press that was the choice facing HSBC, whose dogged pursuit of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) has become a litmus test of South Korean attitudes to foreign investment.
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Several experts have said that 2007 is a litmus-test year for energy and climate change legislation, meaning that real overhaul would come after the 2008 elections in the event that Democrats win both the White House and Congress.
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