Sentences with phrase «as a testing ground»

THE Bank of Queensland will use Western Australia as a testing ground for a return to the use of mortgage brokers and a new branch model in an attempt to firm up its bottom line.

Many American retailers use Canada as a testing ground for their international growth strategies before pushing further abroad into Asia or Europe.

For now, Facebook Stories is only available in Ireland, which has also served as a testing ground for some of the company's other recent projects, including a beta version of Direct.

Dean DeLisle from Forward Progress uses social media as a testing ground for email topics for his clients.

The testing of the U-2 ended in the late 1950s; but, Area 51 has continued to serve as the testing ground for many aircraft, including the F - 117A, A-12, and TACIT BLUE.

Women's stories serve not only as the testing ground for new theological proposals, but also as material for building new theological traditions that revitalize the entire community of faith.

Remembering Henry Young's point, we are compelled to ask, how adequate are the descriptions of concrete events which serve as the testing ground for metaphysical truths?

Use those matches as a testing ground for their youth, or press on in the manner that made them champions?

Earlier in the year, Gov. Cuomo proposed using Broome County, which sits on an abundant section of the Marcellus Shale, as a testing ground

The Department of Transportation is using Staten Island as a testing ground for rubberized asphalt, paving a portion of West Fingerboard Road in Grasmere with the material last fall.

«China plans to dominate the world, and has been using Australia and New Zealand as a testing ground for its tactics to assert its ascendancy in the West,» writes Prof Hamilton, a lecturer in public ethics at Charles Sturt University.

But if Philip Kellman and Joe Wise have their way, this southern Californian city will soon have a fresh claim to fame, as the testing ground for a new way of teaching — one that seeks to work with the brain's natural propensity to learn, rather than against it.

Since 1997, NASA has used the Haughton Crater on Devon Island as a testing ground for rovers, space suits, and other technology being developed for exploration of the Red Planet.

That only began to change in the late 1990s when financier and philanthropist George Soros as well as international relief organizations — first Great Britain's Medical Emergency Relief International, or Merlin, and later the Boston - based Partners in Health (PIH)-- began using this province as a testing ground for developing a comprehensive program to combat TB.

When SMART - 1, the European Space Agency's first mission to the moon, launched in September 2003, astronomers hailed it as the testing ground for a revolutionary and efficient solar - electric - propulsion technology.

«All of these advances to the collider and its detectors showcase the value of RHIC as a testing ground for new technologies that may prove to be useful for other colliders and future research projects at and beyond Brookhaven Lab,» Dunlop said.

Now researchers have employed the water body as a testing ground for quantum teleportation.

The team is now working on characterizing the microbial community of naturally occurring E. coli and Enterococci, using Hawaii with its warm waters as a testing ground.

The agency recently announced that its Mars plan now includes building a «deep - space gateway» around the moon to serve as a testing ground for operations and technology that will be required for those Red Planet missions, Williams said.

The Kid is less uproarious than later Chaplin efforts, serving more as a testing ground as it offers a charming yet tough - minded tale in which the Tramp locates an orphaned baby amidst the tenement rubble and, after much deliberation, elects to raise the child as his own.

This means that not only will there be a new faction and new ships / modules / content to be explored here but this deadspace can be used as a testing ground for any sort of development ideas without directly affecting the main game world.

Though specific ways to implement the plans were not addressed, he stressed the need to use troubled urban school districts as a testing ground for...

This classroom can be used as a testing ground for teaching techniques that can then be further expanded to other schools.

Secondly, it serves as a testing ground for experienced traders to test out their trading strategies before implementing the strategies in a live trading scenario.

Because of this, NASA uses the area as a testing ground for exploration and for filming television documentaries about other worlds.

In just the scant few years since TranStar took over, the station has been used as the testing ground for some morally dubious experiments, with people on board serving as subjects — people like Morgan Yu.

Beta's are meant as a testing ground for not only the player, but the developer.

VR is something we've been experimenting with and we've been using Hellblade as a testing ground.

«We don't just love to write about experimental design; with each issue, we're inviting a new designer to use our magazine as a testing ground for their ideas,» says senior editor Meg Miller.

Throughout the year, individuals and groups from the Schools at various stages of their training will take over the space, using it as a testing ground for innovative works and thought - provoking installations.

TCU regularly shows its support for local professional artists by providing a collaborative environment in the Moudy Gallery as a testing ground for work - in - progress.

These works underscore both Piene's fascination with the color as it relates to fire and the ZERO group's preference for the monochrome as a testing ground for light and its manifold effects.

Cell was founded as a testing ground for artistic practice and continues to foster research, discussion and production for a range of projects.

The editorial arena proved to be a perfect venue for Sultan to engage the realm of pop culture, both as a testing ground for ideas that often made their way back to his personal work, and to bring those ideas to a broader audience via a sort of poetic subterfuge.

The project included five elaborate pilots, which function as testing ground for the models and concepts (further) developed in CRISMA.

This is the great potential of the city, as a testing ground for a variety of new and so far unproven technologies, and as a convincing argument for sustainable city design.

Blog posts are often used as a testing ground for new ideas and when you get it wrong, your readers are not shy about letting you know.

Dentons is the lead supporter and investor in NextLaw Labs and the firm serves as a testing ground for the products and services under development.

Leveraging unique insight and tangible output gained over the past two years, and with the world's largest law firm and its ecosystem as our testing ground and supporter, we are uniquely positioned to serve as a global intelligence hub for the legal innovation vertical.

Formula E bills itself as a testing ground for electric - car tech, but to keep costs down, it's left teams with relatively few avenues for innovation.

It could be that Huawei is using the Mate RS as a testing ground for LG's advancements in the OLED smartphone display world and will put an LG display in another phone with a higher production output should the company prove itself.

He also sees Litecoin as a testing ground for future Bitcoin features.

Samsung has often used the Galaxy Note series as a testing ground for its upcoming technologies and features.

But usually, Samsung is fond of using the Galaxy Note series as a testing ground for most of its upcoming technologies and features, among other updates.

Established model store in Joliet, IL to provide training location for new managers as well as testing ground for new initiatives in merchandising and store operations.

Even worse is if the speculation pans out that HomeServices of America, Inc. (Edina's parent company) is using Minnesota as a testing ground for the rest of the country.

Nicole uses both her blog and her apartment as a testing ground for new ideas in interiors.

Not exact matches

Maman, hired by Amorepacific in 2015 from the perfume and beauty arm of LVMH's Givenchy, said the Paris outlet was «a good testing ground» as the label considered whether to open its own stores or offer its products through other shops.

The Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory was built in the 1950s as a radiation testing ground by the Air Force and weapons manufacturer Lockheed.

Instead, he said he believed that because of its tumultuous political climate, «Ukraine was targeted by bad actors who are using it as a cyberweapon testing ground over the past couple of years.»