| The acid test for the party will be how well they contribute to running the country after next year's election. |
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| It can be used as an acid test of whether a person has interest in knowing or may be blinded by ideological convictions. |
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| The acid test of social democracy is unemployment, because if you are out of work you are far more likely to be poor and marginalised. |
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| When you apply the acid test of value for money, hardly any make the grade. |
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| The acid test ratio is similar to the current ratio but eliminates the inventory figure in the current assets section of the balance sheet. |
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| The acid test, as ever, is whether I'd go back, and on that key criterion the restaurant continues to impress. |
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| For all its rich song-soaked legacy, the Malayalam film industry has never put the dancing skills of its heroes to an acid test. |
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| And that, according to any number of people here, is the acid test of the world's new-found determination to stamp out doping. |
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| The acid test will come for him when a match needs to be won and risks have to be taken. |
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| The acid test for the new one-way system, however, will be peak hours of Monday when roads will take the full might of vehicles after an easy weekend. |
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| The ability to implement these objectives is the acid test of a company's credibility and reputation. |
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| The acid test of the quality of relations within a team is each individual's attitude to it. |
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| The acid test of whether it is a force for good or ill in your life is whether you have earned it. |
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| Therefore it is only logical for you to ask me to put the European model of agriculture to the WTO acid test. |
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| It seems that the magazine has passed the acid test of our readers' opinion. |
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| Both the man and his machine are put to the acid test in the extremely tough conditions of day-to-day opencast mining. |
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| In the eyes of many community and professional partners, the acid test of the Circle process is based on what happens after the Circle. |
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| In closing, 2001 was an acid test for investment strategies and a difficult year for investors and for society as a whole. |
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| The acid test will no doubt be the actual use of qualified majority voting in the instances provided for by the Single Act. |
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| Exposed as it is to the acid test of consumerism, subjected as it is to the excesses of materialism, the citadel of culture seems to be crumbling fast. |
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| When Sligo Rovers defeated Galway I thought to myself that one swallow does not make a summer and the game against Dundalk would be the acid test. |
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| The debt ceiling vote will be something close to an acid test that this budget deal represents a cease fire in the budget wars. |
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| After five years of devolution surely the acid test is to ask in what ways is life in Scotland different now from what it would have been had we not had our own parliament? |
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| The acid test, of course is to look at your own circumstances. |
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| Reform of the banking sector becomes an acid test of this government's determination to change public perception of its competence and its commitment to competition. |
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| The one acid test he applies before participating in any social event is whether such participation will benefit his company or the society at large. |
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| But I guess this is the acid test for whether or not you're shy. |
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| The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials. |
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| It may be painful, but this is an acid test for Republicans. |
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| Finally, a word about the acid test in all of this. |
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| What I can tell you is that, in and of itself, the nucleic acid test for HIV is certainly not sufficient reason to sign a death warrant on that question which is currently on the form. |
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| Clearly, in an environment of extremely rapid growth with its notorious risk of creating an overheated economy, this approach has passed the acid test. |
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| The ability to use the first fully automated nucleic acid test for West Nile virus will enable blood centers, clinics and hospitals in Canada to reliably detect the virus, often in people who are not yet showing symptoms. |
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| Health Canada has approved a new nucleic acid test from Roche Diagnostics to screen donated blood for HIV-1 Group M RNA, hepatitis C RNA and hepatitis B DNA in a single, automated assay. |
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| The quick ratio, sometimes called the acid test ratio, is similar to the current ratio, but is considered a more reliable indicator of a company's ability to meet its short-term financial obligations. |
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| This second phase is integral to the first. This is partly because implementation of any strategy becomes the acid test by which policy visions can be benchmarked in practice. |
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| Then he delivers an analgesic drug to the animal and runs this acid test again. |
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| But the games against Leamington and Chasetown will be the acid test. |
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| Marshalls will lead the second of three Acid Test events organised by Business in the Community. |
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