But supporters of the treaty and the related British 2003 Act argue that the removal of the prima facie test simply means that suspects face the same broad test in each country.
Failure of a test usually means an instant short spell in jail, and it is hoped that such a dramatic sentence will shock people out of re-offending - thereby reducing long-term prison numbers and cutting off alcohol-related crime at the source.
England's humiliating loss within three days to Australia in the fourth Test in Leeds means they now go into the final Test, which begins on 20 August, needing to win to reclaim the Ashes.
Yet any proposal to institute a means test is either ignored or howled down.
So any rationing of benefits by income would need to be based on something that looked a lot more like the traditional means test.
Would you be willing to means test Social Security or Medicare?
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama��s News Conference on Deficit Reduction
The means test works by paying more to pensioners without savings.
This is one of many bad incentives created by high-stakes testing, and by placing too much faith in the test as a means to improve outcomes.
He said also that during Gordon's Brown time at the Treasury, older Scots had to endure the indignity of a means test to get a decent pension.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | SNP chief Salmond rounds on Brown
The law applied a "means test" to determine whether a person qualifies for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which erases debts, or Chapter 13, which establishes a payment system.
Rechristening the means test would not overcome Mr Field's objections.
Soon after he won power, Mr Blair decided to abolish the maintenance grants of university students throughout the United Kingdom, and to require many students (subject to a means test) to contribute to the cost of their tuition fees.
There was not a lot of money to go around so I tried to convince the student leaders the loan should be available only to those who really needed it and that we should have a means test to determine those who would qualify for the loan.
As one factor among many, test scores can provide useful data, but as the primary means of evaluating teachers test scores are too unreliable.
FORBES: New York City to Roll Out New Tests to Rate Teachers
We discourage assumptions without the means to test or determine whether they bring real results.
But a means-test is no substitute for sorting out overlapping benefits and confining payments to people who are genuinely disabled.
Why not integrate them with Social Security and then means-test the benefits?
FORBES: Why A Cyprus-Like Seizure Of Your Money Could Happen Here
The initiative is widely seen as a means to test the waters before mandatory standards having the force of law would be put forward.
Just like the story of the Great Smoky Mountains, meeting the new test of environmental stewardship means finding the best ideas at the grassroots level.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on America's Great Outdoors Initiative
MPs also backed ministers by 332 to 266 over plans to means-test the same allowance after 12 months, so people recovering from an illness or injury will be able to claim contributory ESA for one year rather than the two years proposed by peers.
David Cameron was careful to say - in the advance text we've seen so far - that he'd keep his promise to pensioners not to means-test their benefits, but Iain Duncan Smith made it absolutely clear that that promise lasts just for this Parliament - in other words not for the period the speech is talking about.
Teaching to a test not only narrows the curriculum, it means that teachers prepare students specifically for the test.
Ensuring that bots are blocked means presenting a test that the software cannot complete.
FORBES: Artificial Intelligence Will Defeat CAPTCHA -- How Will We Prove We're Human Then?
When we talk about testing, parents worry that it means more teaching to the test.
It means they lost the first Test by an innings and 294 runs in Harare.
This means both the time to test and learn, as well as the courage to reconsider policy positions.
In Russia 'to get a banana' means 'to fail a test somewhere'.
应用推荐