Sentences with phrase «first major test»

Arsenal's first major test of the season would come in their next game, away to the defending champions Manchester City, and boy, did they rise to it.

Pixelmage Games takes to Twitter to announce the Hero's Song Alpha 3 launch date as the game nears it's first major test for backers.

The Democratic National Convention is Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown's first major test as chairman of the state Democratic party.

Brendan Bechtel's first major test came in early 2012, when he was dispatched to help oversee the construction of a $ 10 billion LNG plant on Curtis Island, a remote, rugged outpost off Australia's northeast coast.

One supporter of adaptive tests, Bill Johnson, is superintendent of the Rockville Centre school district, where the Island's first major test boycott took place in spring 2013.

This holiday season — during the gift - buying rush that generates about 30 % of annual sales, and is the one and only time all year that some shoppers will visit a Macy's store — the initiatives Gennette and his team are rolling out will face their first major test.

«BIDDING WAR» IN AIRLINES: In a research note to investors, Stifel's DeNardi argued that the Sprint / T - Mobile merger announcement and approval process was the first major test of the Trump administration's view on consolidation.

The labour dispute is the first major test new CEO Ed Sims will face as head of the company.

The first major test of confidence will come in the plan to sell a 5 % stake in Saudi Aramco.

Two major Northern Territory cattle stations being offered for sale by the Thames Pastoral Company could fetch as much as $ 80 million in what will be the first major test of appetite for large - scale assets in the beef sector.

Increasingly concerned at an apparent deadlock over engineering a transfer to either club, he is preparing to hand Roy Hodgson his first major test as Liverpool boss by asking for a move.

We begin the season on the 10th of August with Arsenal preparing for their first major test against the 2013/14 champions, Manchester City in the Community Shield.

Week 3 offers the first major test for the club when they make the formidable trip to Anfield to take on Liverpool.

The game against the Aviva Premiership club will be the first major test of the Oxford side as they build towards their attempt to make it a «Magnificent Seven» wins in a row over arch-rivals Cambridge in The Varsity Match at Twickenham on Thursday, 8 December.

Next up for the Oxford is the visit of Bristol United to Iffley Road on Monday, 10 October, in what will be the first major test for the Dark Blues in the road to Twickenham.

Arsenal face their first major test of the season in the form of ManCity.

The first major test for party unity will be the passage of the budget, the government's draft of which must be introduced into the Duma by Nov. 1 and will be signed into law in December.

Coalition ministers are struggling to secure a much - needed victory on Lords reform, as Nick Clegg's legislation approaches its first major test in the Commons.

While these elections are the first major test of public opinion since last year's surprising general election, it is worth saying that local elections do not always reflect the national political mood.

The Queen's jubilee and the Olympics will take care of themselves, but the mayoral contest on 3 May — when Londoners go to the polls to deliver the first major test of political opinion in England, other than in local elections, since the coalition was formed — will be watched keenly as a mid-term test of electability, with major implications for all three parties.

Ahead of the AV referendum and the local elections next year, the spending review will be the first major test for the unity of the coalition.

They will also be the first major test of the «new politics» grassroots of the party.

Ministers face the first major test of their environmental credentials as they discuss whether to accept an independent committee's advice.

In November 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious housing plan faced its first major test: Astoria Cove, a 1,700 - unit luxury complex planned for the Queens waterfront.

One of two long - awaited police substations in the City of Buffalo got its first major test this holiday weekend, and visitors to the city's waterfront saw the benefit.

If he does win tomorrow, Mr Cameron has less than 24 hours before his first major test as party leader - prime minister's questions in the Commons, where he will face Tony Blair over the dispatch box.

The first major test will be Democratic Rural Conference straw poll in Niagara Falls on Saturday.

Instantly, Mr. O'Neill became immersed in his first major test as head of the nation's largest police force, a trial by fire no one would seek.

With that vote, President Donald Trump's top priority passed its first major test of the legislative process, as Republican leaders in the House and Senate rush the complex tax legislation in a bid to put it on the president's desk before Christmas.

Scandal - scarred City Comptroller John Liu, facing his first major test of strength since his campaign was hit by a federal investigation into allegations of illegal fundraising, held a packed birthday bash Monday night at the posh City Hall Restaurant.

In May 2016, the devolved and local elections will provide the first major test of his leadership and it is crucial for Project Corbyn that the party performs well in the big mayoral contests in London, Bristol and Liverpool.

Over the next few weeks Nick Clegg's dream of a reformed second chamber faces its first major test.

Seats on 150 councils are up for grabs in this year's local elections — the first major test of public opinion since last year's snap general election.

Labour's Debbie Abrahams secured a comfortable victory in the Coalition's first major test, winning the seat with a majority of 3,558 over the Liberal Democrat Elwyn Watkins.

In total, 4,371 seats were contested across 150 local authorities, in the first major test of public opinion since last year's general election.

Prosecutors will face one of their first major tests in the case against Sen. Robert Menendez, D - N.J., whose trial is scheduled to begin in September.

The experiment is the first major test of a piping system that could one day spew sulfate particles into the stratosphere at an altitude of 20 kilometers, supported by a stadium - size hydrogen balloon.

The first major test of busing as a tool for desegregating came in the North Carolina school district of Charlotte - Mecklenburg.

And what we all can see developing here, in the process, is one of the first major tests of the independent publishing movement's clout.

2) The first major test of this key level / event area a little over a month later, resulted in a bearish pin bar sell signal that led to another large decline.

Following the adoption of the Dubai Pathway on HFCs, Parties to the Montreal Protocol are set to negotiate and adopt an HFC amendment in 2016, the first major test of the Paris Climate Agreement and global commitment to «pursue efforts to limit the [average global] temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.»

A California federal judge Monday ruled that a certified class action on behalf of Illinois Facebook users alleging that the social media giant unlawfully collects biometric data from the tagging of their photos «will go forward,» in one of the first major tests of the scope of the Midwestern state's Biometric Information Privacy Act.

It appears that Australia's stock market may be the first major test for the use of blockchain technology by a traditional stock exchange.

That partnership found the newspaper collecting more than 700 donations for non-profit group the Taproot Foundation, and was one of the first major tests for BitWall, the California - based bitcoin micropayments provider.

However, due to a huge influx of unexpected buying activity, the Ethereum network essentially collapsed at the point at which 1.68 billion SNT tokens had been issued and the collapse now is looked back on as one of the first major tests (and, subsequently, failures) of the Ethereum network and software.

An ongoing case before the Ontario courts could be one of the first major tests of a new provincial law that protects sperm donors with no intent to parent from paying child support, says St. Catharines family lawyer Sharon Silbert.

An ongoing case before the Ontario courts could be one of the first major tests of a new provincial law that protects sperm donors with no intent to parent from paying child... Read more