| Their presence can be taken as the unfailing indicator, the litmus test, as it were, that the system under operation is a kakistocracy. |
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| The debate over these little-known acts was a litmus test of the issues that lie hidden beneath Australia's rapid urbanisation. |
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| By the 1900s, it had become the litmus test of public health among the medical profession and the urban middle class. |
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| Well, the main litmus test, and it's written into the law, is that the U.S. parent company cannot directly manage or directly own the subsidiary. |
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| Under the Federal Guidelines of 1971, statistical representation became the litmus test of discrimination. |
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| The self-proclaimed American Bard, Whitman has also come to be seen as the litmus test for the literature of American democracy. |
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| The first is that, once again, we have legislation that is a litmus test in terms of the difference between this Government and the Opposition. |
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| If the litmus test for aerospace integration is completely interchangeable air and space communities, such a goal is probably unrealistic. |
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| According to some who have worked there, the White House counsel's office doesn't run candidates through an ideological litmus test. |
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| Ideas and the right to criticise them are the litmus test of a free society. |
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| My other reason is selfish I guess, maybe I'm using it as a litmus test to uncover kindred spirits that enjoy the same things that I do. |
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| Now it appears that the infallible litmus test of whether one is on the right track is whether most people think the contrary. |
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| But the litmus test for engagement, I always think, is the kids. |
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| The Review Conference in 2010 will be a true litmus test of the resolve of the key participants. |
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| But the CEOs on our list point to golf as a litmus test of honesty. |
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| Better outcomes for consumers are the ultimate goal of all single market policies and the litmus test for their success. |
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| If he wins, they will say it was because he campaigned as a committed conservative who checked the box on every litmus test. |
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| We had a four-part litmus test for the tax cuts that we adopted. |
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| That's the litmus test for discrimination under Supreme Court jurisprudence these days. |
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| Not surprisingly, the battle ends up always be the litmus test of all style. |
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| The litmus test is this: does a proposed change help meet the challenge posed by a virulent threat? |
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| It can be seen as a litmus test of the political will to avoid new global or regional arms races in the nuclear field. |
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| Copenhagen will be the litmus test of our commitment to an ambitious, allinclusive climate change agreement. |
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| Bin them, recycle them or find them new homes, but commit to beautility by beginning to give the useful pride of place today and resolving to make it the litmus test for every new purchase tomorrow. |
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| Clarity of expression is something Mayer prizes so dearly that she uses it as a litmus test when evaluating new ideas. |
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| Science and research policies already constitute a litmus test in this respect. |
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| Call it a litmus test of his, and the sport's, marketability. |
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| The Veterans of Foreign Wars organized an americanization committee that promoted the song as a litmus test of loyalty. |
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| The GOP front-runner refused to take an antiabortion litmus test, putting support from the religious right at risk. |
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| Interest group activity may provide a litmus test for the degree to which the supranational institutions of the EU exercise independent influence over the policy process. |
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| The guidelines have been referred to in many ways: a check, a cross-check, a litmus test, a useful tool and a starting point. |
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| By its very nature, road transport and, in particular, international road transport can also be seen as a litmus test for trade barriers. |
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| The ability to do so constitutes a litmus test of the effectiveness and relevance of central agencies. |
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| Canada's policies and practice in international cooperation are a litmus test of our commitment to global human security. |
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| Fundamentally, achievement, capability, potential combined with knowledge, skills and abilities commensurate with identified leadership competencies could become the litmus test for senior officer appointment. |
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| Temple, under its new coach, Ray Morrison, formerly of Vanderbilt, will be put to the blue litmus test Friday night when it takes on Georgetown. |
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| We have no such compunctions about language, thus, accent becomes a litmus test for exclusion, and excuse to turn away, to recognize the other. |
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| Investors viewed the IPO as a crucial litmus test to determine whether other hedge funds will follow Fortress onto the stock market. |
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| The litmus test should prove a useful deterrent to youngsters drinking in public and causing problems as a result. |
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| Beretta's political litmus test is stringent. |
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| The society has been gradually militarised over the years, and the litmus test for the state of human rights, freedom of religion and the rights of minorities, has shown that these are restricted. |
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| The Fund's Third Voluntary Replenishment Conference, hosted by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in October 2010, provides the litmus test of global solidarity of our era. |
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| She considers the upcoming experience in Namibia to be a kind of litmus test that may indicate whether she should continue to pursue a career in teaching or switch her focus to international development. |
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| Speed of change is often seen as the litmus test of effectiveness. |
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| Given that the region will remain an economic powerhouse, Asia remains a key litmus test of whether economic and environmental interests and needs can be balanced successfully. |
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| It may be said that it would be a litmus test of the actual progress made by Europe towards unification and of the prevalence of thinking based on the values of truly Western civilisation rather than pure pragmatism. |
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| We often talk of ordinary Iraqis as the litmus test for recovery, but even over these few short weeks, I have come to think of them as extraordinary Iraqis. |
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| Their views and opinions on the development of our relations serve as a kind of litmus test of cooperation between our countries and help us to get rid of hackneyed stereotypes. |
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| But when did they become the litmus test of competence in office? |
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| The policies and practices required to do so are, in many ways, a litmus test of a city's political will to improve urban governance for the benefit of all of its citizens and for a better and more sustainable future. |
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| The right-wing base and media will make it a litmus test issue. |
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| How can he apply a litmus test without answering that question. |
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| I don't want to count the scatterguns I now own, but the number is embarrassing.Because I love hunting pheasants, it's become my litmus test for judging upland scatterguns. |
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