Sentences with phrase «first big test»

The Tuesday event marked the beginning of Armory Arts Week, this year's first big test of art fair sales, which have been expanding in recent years.

If anything, this was Barcelona's first big test with high stakes and Valverde's approach was for everyone to see.

This is the new team's first big test since the departure of Andrew Mitchell.

One of Adamczyk's first big tests will be his handling of activist investor Dan Loeb's proposal that Honeywell spin off its aerospace unit, where margins have risen, but sales growth has lagged.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada represents the super union's first big test.

The first big test was Hess.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish - shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal to get the entire planet online.

White set her first big test in motion last week when she chose Robert Rice as SEC counsel.

But if this is not her intention, will she correct the mistake or flunk her first big test?

The Bernanke Fed is being put to its first big test as Fed watchers monitor its handling of the credit drama when it releases its statement at 2:15 p.m..

Gun - control advocates consider the midterm elections the first big test for their reinvigorated movement.

Jerry Quarry was to be the first big test for undefeated Ron Lyle.

Yet his first big test and in all honesty, other than a master performance from Cazorla (who is a Spain international and recognised player) he was the best on the pitch.

I can not wait to see our new - look attack in action again, and it will be very interesting to see the duo in what will come as their first big test since joining the club.

Our new signings really flopped in their first big test for Arsenal.

They'll have their first big test on opening night in Cleveland.

Not only does that win do just that, but it shows us this Miami team is for real, with VT really being the first big test for the Canes so far this season.

Our first big test of the season is this weekend.

It's the first big test of the 2017 - 18 season for head coach Greg Gard and the unranked Wisconsin Badgers, as the No. 15 Xavier Musketeers come into town on Thursday night as part of the 2017 Gavitt Games.

This was our first big test when we came under some serious pressure and the lads responded with a bend but don't break performance.

In the week that he is preparing for the first big test of his stewardship of the Italian national team, coach Ventura could probably have done without questions about Balotelli.

Brighton had not conceded more than two goals in a game before this match and their response to this emphatic defeat will be a first big test of character since winning promotion to the Premier League.

The Boba faired a little less well with the «first big test» I was talking about earlier - that being the ease of putting it on.

In his first big test, the Government Chief Whip, who keeps a tarantula in his office, ran a brilliantly efficient operation, leaving nothing to chance.

The first big test of this combined operation came only three weeks after it was set up, when David Laws, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, faced allegations about his expenses.

The local government elections on 3 May 2018 will be the first big test of voters» opinion since they deprived the Conservatives of their majority in parliament last June.

It was the first big test of public opinion since last year's General Election.

Arguably the coalition faced its first big test with the gun control law passing the chamber.

Cook's first big test is whether to support the Bush administration in its plans to oust Sadam Hussein in Iraq.

Either way, he is widely thought of as having failed his first big test as leader by losing a by - election in Stoke following the resignation of Labour MP Tristram Hunt.

The European Elections in May were the website's first big test.

The referendum could be one of the first big tests for the coalition, with the Lib Dems enthusiastic backers of voting reform but the Conservatives in favour of keeping the current first - past - the - post system.

Sue Lerner of Common Cause says JCOPE «failed» its first big test.

Sheehan's first big test will come just weeks after she takes office in January, when Cuomo rolls out his budget proposal.

The first big test of Mr Corbyn's new authority is whether he can persuade big beasts, such as former Cabinet minister Yvette Cooper and former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, to serve under him in the shadow cabinet.

Medical geneticists are giving genome sequencing its first big test in the clinic by applying it to some of their most baffling cases.

This achievement marks the first big test of a new analysis method that can speed up genome assembly by compressing the raw sequence data 100-fold.

The facility, to which many countries around the world contributed know - how and components, has passed its first big test with flying colours.

MONTREAL — The first big test many university students face often has more to do with handling their financial affairs, in particular credit cards, than with scholastics.

The first big test of financial literacy for most people is acquiring a credit card or taking out a student loan.

The results are in for the first big test of Cooper Union's new era — the era in which students actually pay to attend — and the university appears to have scored about 80 percent.

This will be the first big test of REDD.»

It should come as no surprise that the US and China are providing the first big test of the INDC concept, because they were at the center of the logjam that led to their creation in the first place.

Android's new built - in antivirus program, Google Play Protect, just had its first big test — and it has failed miserably.

Cortana is the first big test of a giant mind - meld between Bing services, and it's one reason Microsoft is placing a beta tag on the feature initially.