Sentences with phrase «as important a test»

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

Perhaps New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg deserves credit, then, for saying straight out, and sticking to his position, that the mosque «is as important a test» of «the separation of church and state as we may see in our lifetime.»

With the IAAF World Championships held just one month later, the European 200m champion is looking forward to using the London Diamond League meeting as an important test as he works towards Beijing.

The Syracuse area primary was viewed as an important test of whether Sanders could rally down - ballot support for like - minded candidates.

Roger Pertwee from the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, who has studied cannabinoids since 1968, highlighted the brain's own cannabinoid system, which modulates pain, mood, memory, appetite, and more, as an important test site for research.

Many linguists regard Nicaraguan Sign Language, or NSL, as an important test case, because the language developed almost in isolation, and the first «speakers» are still alive.

The case is seen as an important test of California's so - called «parent trigger» law, which allows parents to force reforms at low performing schools through a petition signed by 50 percent of parents.

As an important test bed for future technology, the Racing Lancers used at the Dakar reflected Mitsubishi's ongoing efforts to minimize the automobile's environmental footprint with such features as clean diesel power, bio-fuel capability and plant - based «green plastic» body components.

European leaders expressed outrage in March when Mr. Bush rejected the global warming pact known as the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, and the subject has been building as an important test of the administration's foreign policy.

A discipline hearing, which started as an important test of the law society's conflict rules, has become a prosecutorial folly.»

More likely is the avoidance (or quick resolution) of such a split, one that will also serve as an important test that bolsters the perception of bitcoin as a secure store of value.

Not exact matches

An important trigger this year will be the outcome of a study where Darzalex is being tested as first - line treatment in combination with Celgene Corp's Revlimid.

«However, it is important that our consumers understand and have confidence that all Crock - Pot slow cookers exceed all internal testing protocols and all applicable industry safety standards and regulations as verified by independent third - party testing labs.»

Putting all three public pensions together is important because, as I mentioned, higher CPP income can mean lower benefits from the income - tested Guaranteed Income Supplement.

And, given that all our phones serve double duty as point - and - shoot cameras these days, one of the most important tests is camera quality.

In a piece of good luck, a Lookout executive promptly activated the link on an iPhone to see what it would do — as Murray explained, the decision to test it quickly proved important since the link was built to time out after 30 minutes.

Like many, he points to the CSeries, which is expected to be ready for test flights in June, as far more important to the company's long - term success than a handful of big deals in the business line.

Hypotheses about everything from customer relationships to value propositions to important partners must be tested, all to answer questions such as «What is the product?»

Polling is «an interesting laboratory for testing out methodologies,» he says, such as who tends to respond to telephone versus online surveys, or different demographic groups» values, which are starting to be recognized as an important factor in consumer decisions.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

As with any marketing strategy, it's important to test and measure the return on your social media investment.

His tests employ a higher threshold for hypertension and don't require participants to fast for 12 hours before taking a glucose test (which is seen as important when testing one individual but is impractical in doing a companywide screen).

As with many things in ecommerce, one size does not fit all, so it is important to measure and test the success of changes you make to your online store's pricing strategy.

Regulators talk sometimes about regulating the big bond mutual - fund complexes as «systemically important» institutions, on the theory that liquidity requirements, stress testing, regulatory oversight, etc. could make them less vulnerable to herding and the shock of redemption requirements.

The two most important ones are one, using our specialty store channel as a laboratory to test product in our stores earlier than we take it to general market, to be able to get reads and then be able to react, both to chase into product, to make adjustments to product, and to take position on raw materials, which leads to the second part that George mentioned in his prepared remarks, where the (45:19) product, whether that's certain leather qualities that we use on an ongoing basis, or fabrications in ready - to - wear, to take a position, an ownership position on those so that we're able to react more quickly.

Therefore, it is important for us to test new technology as early as possible.

It was the unanimous opinion of this hearing panel that forcing a regional bank engaging in safe and sound banking and lending practices with $ 50 billion in assets to undergo stress tests and other regulatory rigors as a systemically important financial institution placed in the same league as a $ 2.5 trillion bank like JPMorgan, is nonsense.

In what the banks describe as an «important milestone in progressing blockchain technology,» the National Bank of Canada and J.P Morgan tested J.P Morgan's Ethereum blockchain variant Quorum ®.

With more cryptocurrency regulation inevitable in the coming months, this could prove to be an important test case and a strong indicator as to which way the rest of Europe will turn.

Details of levels of some important global equity indices testing their multi-year lows is as per above.

A bounce from there tested the $ 290 level, which of course is a very important level, as it was the bottom of consolidation, but it looks likely that we are entering a wider consolidated... Continue reading ETH / USD and ETH / BTC Technical Analysis November 3 2017

As a Google PPC ninja once told me, it is important to constantly split - test new ads so that messaging is consistently being refined in a competitive marketplace.

From a democratic standpoint it is important to devise and use tests that do not have this class bias, and to compensate as far as possible for the distortion introduced by existing measures.

Finally, the topic of condom ads needs to be addressed, not because it is more important than (probably it is not even as important as) other public - policy questions such as mandatory AIDS testing or contact notification, but because it has provoked such extensive discussion among evangelicals.

In others in which summons by an ecclesiastical body is as important as an inner call the latter must be supplemented or tested by a period spent under the supervision of a bishop, a conference, a presbytery, or some other official body.

Since this «humility before fact» in the framework of a speculative system is distorted and endangered by the selectivity of the system, since that which is regarded as a fact varies with the systematic context, there is to add, in view of the correction of the speculative system: «The ultimate test is always widespread, recurrent experience; and the more general the rationalistic scheme [namely, and thus precisely, not only more effective, but also more forcefully endangered by «professional blindness»], the more important is this final appeal» (PR 17/25).

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Just as important, the technology, designed to be user - friendly even for those with limited understanding of English, immediately identifies erroneous testing responses and launches into a corrective remediation process.

As an important aside, a specialist can counsel your relatives about whether they should undergo blood tests or genetic screening for this inherited autoimmune disorder.

Kinda important... How much salt to add to the water for the initial brining??!! How «bout a more accurate «test» for later tasting of the brine as my «saltiness» is much different than others?!

Food makers have insisted that the industry views «all consumers [as] equally important» as the European Commission signalled its intention to improve product competitive testing proceedures in response to concerns over so - called «dual quality» foods.

It's also important to note that coeliac disease can't be diagnosed exclusively from blood tests, but can be a good indicator as to whether a biopsy is required.

As the original home of the Green Revolution in Asia, the IRRI experiment station (ES) was the site where some of the world's most productive and important rice varieties were developed and first tested.

The Organic Valley Good Food Commons features 30 minute micro-workshops organized thematically by resource centers, each focusing on important topics within the Good Food movement such as growing food, raising animals, learning culinary skills, and composting as well as testing your own where attendees are invited to bring in a sample of their backyard soil for testing.

General Mills has been advised that it is important to provide me with detailed information about their testing protocols as well as allow me to view test results.

Most important, test it out over your sink first — so as not to burn your house down.»

They are going to have another tough but very important test in Week 13 as 3 - 9 Team Maione is up next for them on the docket.

But the FA Cup is a very important trophy for Arsene Wenger as Arsenal are the holders after winning the third FA Cup Final in just four seasons, but Le Prof acknowledges that the crucial Third Round ties can be the most difficult test on the way to the later stages.

The other combine numbers for an edge rusher aren't as important to me unless the testing is wildly different from what's on tape.

If playing Theo Walcott as a center forward is an experiment still yet, then I say we avoid testing it out on important league games.