Example collocations logo

Tests in sentence

873 examples of Tests in a sentence

Even if Trump were subjected to a battery of blood tests and brain scans, the results would most likely prove nothing.
The case for a pan-European supervisor is widely accepted, especially as the European Banking Authority (the EU’s banking regulator) proved feeble in carrying out financial stress tests: the first tests were so weak that even Spain’s now-bankrupt savings banks could pass with flying colors.
Missile tests, PLA military exercises and threatening rhetoric have been sufficient deterrents until now.
Indeed, only last July the eurozone made a big show of its financial “stress tests” of its banks, giving almost all of them, including in Ireland, a clean bill of health.
This may explain why so many of North Korea’s missile tests have failed in recent months.
Medical tests, too, often bring bad news, but abolishing medical testing does not solve problems, it only hides them, making them worse.
Missile tests aside, China has been trying to cajole America into stopping arms sales to Taiwan.
The result – a decision to cheat on emissions tests – says less about Germany’s culture of manufacturing than about rot at the car company, beginning at the very top.
The problem is that neither France nor Germany can be certain that they will be able to pass the budgetary tests so as to launch the single currency on schedule.
If either were to fail these tests, monetary union would be stillborn.
For example, in the Review on AMR, which I chaired, we urged developed countries to require, by 2020, that certain diagnostic tests be conducted before antibiotics can be prescribed.
India's tests mean that the days of the two-tiered system are over.
Welcome as American sanctions against India are, the most important response to the Indian tests would be an international debate.
While proponents admit that a world without nuclear weapons would not be without dangers - especially from governments that might decide to violate abolition agreements - these dangers rate far below the perils of living in the world of uncontrolled nuclear proliferation toward which the Indian tests point.
Recent tests of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles – including the country’s most powerful nuclear test ever, carried out last month – show just how close the Hermit Kingdom is to achieving its goals.
Otherwise, China may well have stopped supplying oil and food to the North after Kim’s regime conducted nuclear tests, in line with United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874, which imposed stringent economic sanctions against North Korea.
Similarly, ASEAN’s response to North Korea’s provocations – such as ongoing nuclear tests and the 2010 attack that sunk the South Korean corvette Cheonan, killing 46 seamen – has been muted, owing to some ASEAN member states’ sympathy for the North Korean regime.
But the current US leadership is going too far in the other direction, including by raising the threshold for stress tests to $250 billion and letting non-banks off the hook, which increases the risk of an eventual recurrence of the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
A more relevant example may well be Turkey, where Islamist movements were dissolved by the courts; when they reappeared in a different guise, they had to undergo severe tests.
Based on research, biotechnology companies have invested in sequencing technologies and developed predictive tests to identify those who are asymptomatic, but genetically predisposed to a growing number of genetic diseases and more common disorders such as certain types of cancer.
Some scientists, indeed, are convinced that genetic tests will eventually help predict behavioral tendencies and personality traits – including predispositions to mental illness, homosexuality, addiction, even risk taking, timidity, and religiosity.
Genetic tests differ significantly from other clinical tests.
But even when genetic tests correctly predict that a person is at risk, there may be little or no benefit from that knowledge.
Despite decades of promises, tests are available far in advance of therapies.
The need for profit encourages employers to give genetic tests to workers to discover who may be most productive, or who may be prone to illness that might lead to costly claims for compensation.
But above all, pressures from a biotechnology industry that stands to profit from the proliferation of tests drives the expansion of genetic testing.
There are more than 450 research programs in America developing genetic tests.
The institutional interest in the predictive information from genetic tests conflicts with the rights and interests of individuals.
Today genetic tests yield probabilities and uncertain, inadequate information.
The EU, indeed, faces few greater tests of its ability to project stability than in the Balkans.
BackNext