Unlike the Pap, it is an objective test read by a machine and results in a positive or negative result.

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So in 1995 the Tories replaced Invalidity Benefit with Incapacity Benefit, which required claimants to satisfy an objective medical test.

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After all, race is not a scientific concept that can be unequivocally confirmed with a DNA test or any other objective measure that could stand up to judicial scrutiny.

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By any objective measure, they failed that test.

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What these studies highlight is a worthy objective which should galvanize efforts to devise, test, and implement strategies at the individual, neighborhood, and societal levels to improve health and longevity for society as a whole.

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Whether the verification process undertaken is reasonable will be an objective determination, based on a facts-and-circumstances test.

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Part of Poon's stated objective is to help convince insurers to pay for the new test, which he believes will save money and help patients in the long run.

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Long an objective of those who want to "denuclearize" the United States, a Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB) may well be agreed in principle by the two leaders.

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In an election fraught with ironies, here is one more: Al Gore , the putative inventor of the Internet, when faced with the perfect test of his belief in empirical solutions to the world's problems, immediately threw out objective, electro-mechanical vote counting in lieu of the most subjective of measurement schemes--teams of politically biased observers peering at increasingly mangled paper ballots.

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