Sentences with phrase «much a test of»

As much a testing of the boundaries of the fiction / nonfiction realms as it is simply telling a story (similar to his approach to «Actress»), here Greene creates a hybrid that is «emotionally gripping and infinitely thought - provoking.»

That statute has been denounced for causing too much testing of school children, making teachers «teach to the test» to avoid penalties, and...

That statute has been denounced for causing too much testing of school children, making teachers «teach to the test» to avoid penalties, and mandating the use of unproven improvement strategies for poorly performing schools.

Speed is important, of course, but with so many turns, the Pikes Peak hillclimb is as much a test of stability through corners than sprints up straight sections of the route.

-LSB-...] There's a lot of emotion that goes into being a writer — it's as much a test of will as of craft.

Much testing of formal arrangement goes on in the studio, with one of the assistants lifting things and putting them in place, only to readjust them once Caro has considered the result.

Aircraft can be (and are) extensively real - world flight tested during development, after much testing of component materials and parts.

Not exact matches

We've fired it for 100 seconds — it could fire much longer than 100 seconds, that's just the size of the test tanks.

That means interleaving not only produces better short - term results, it also results in much greater long - term retention — which is incredibly important in the real world where the point of learning isn't to simply remember something long enough to pass a test.

The WSJ report questions how much Theranos relies on their new technology and how many of their tests are run on traditional machines.

Based on the concept that the test is then «needed,» testing only once someone is already sick results in costly outcomes and limits individuals from fully taking ownership of their own health, in a world in which so much of our healthcare costs and outcomes are driven by lifestyle related decisions.

That's hundreds of millions of times as much as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and roughly 163,000 times as much as the Soviet Union's test of Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961.

In the crude oil market, we found that accuracy of testing relied much more heavily on operator judgments in how they executed and / or interpreted the test.

Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

And I probably wouldn't be much of a reporter if my precision was as low as my fake test had indicated.

But Brin's timing is not propitious, coming as many developers and early Glass users are losing interest in the much - hyped, $ 1,500 test version of the product: a camera, processor and stamp - sized computer screen mounted to the edge of eyeglass frames.

Kim said there were two additional, larger tunnels that remain «in a very good condition» at the Punggye - ri test site beyond the existing one, which experts have said had collapsed after repeated explosions, rendering much of the site useless.

In 2011, after government researchers conducted a series of those tests, the European Commission found that diesel cars were spewing as much as seven times more NOx on actual roads than they were in the lab.

That's a really remarkable opportunity that we have, simply because we have access to so much data and we've built the technology framework to support that type of testing.»

Expect to lay out at least a few hundred dollars, depending on how much work needs to be done, says Dan Edmunds, director of vehicle testing at auto website Edmunds.com.

That's what much of studying and testing consists of, after all.

In other sessions, he explains the results of our Bod Pod tests, suggesting that a balanced approach to eating and exercise that will reduce body fat percentages much more effectively than «running a marathon and eating anything you like.»

Although they are much less powerful than the industrial models from Universal Robots, IOActive released a video of a test in which an otherwise cute NAO robot suddenly begins laughing in an evil and maniacal way and uses a screwdriver to repeatedly stab a tomato.

When it comes to the final test of value, it's not as much about the price of the house as the perception that the buyer is getting a deal.

A recent study found that 76 percent of Americans consider customer service the «true test» of how much a company values them.

Uber is testing many of its cars in Pittsburgh, which has much more challenging climate and geography than Phoenix.

Kara Swisher, Editor of Recode, drops in on the VAL field testing much to the surprise of it's creator.

When you're down for the count and have nothing to offer anyone, that's a true test of just how much your family and friends love you.

Spend time to test various scenarios to determine how much your business would lose with an hour, a day or even a week of downtime.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

Use it as a testing base before building too much of anything else.

Images of a much larger test rig «leaked» earlier this year, though Abovitz rushed to assure observers that this did not represent anything like the finished product.

«Anything much worse than that could unleash a wave of new selling, perhaps taking out key support at $ 15.50 and setting up a test of the previous lows from late last year,» said Steven Schoenfeld, founder of BlueStar Indexes, which develops indexes and exchange traded - funds that track Israeli stocks.

I've tested similar crossovers but never with this much punch and ease of handling, although I won't sugarcoat the fact that many entry - level crossovers cost as much as $ 10,000 to $ 15,000 less.

Still, from the minute it learned WeatherTech was doing a Super Bowl ad, Americaneagle.com went into research and testing mode, not only estimating just how much extra traffic WeatherTech would get on February 2 and the days afterward but also testing the site to see where bottlenecks existed that might cause problems in the event of a huge traffic spike.

Try test marketing your product on a small scale so you can realistically forecast how much you can sell in the future, suggests Edward Hess, professor and Batten Executive - in - Residence at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

«This is one of those things that's really difficult to test on the ground,» said Musk, looking much more energetic than he did at a National Governor's Association meeting last Saturday.

A big part of what's driving Opdivo's success is an early decision by BMS to chase a much wider share of the cancer patient population — a decision that has meant that doctors don't have to administer a time - consuming diagnostic test to check if patients have a protein called PD - L1 before prescribing Opdivo in certain cancers.

Once you go through the process of testing your content you'll have much better ideas about exactly what book you should write.

Nordstrom won't say how much of a roll - out it is planning — the success of these tests will determine that.

And in his January 1937 inaugural address Roosevelt said, «The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.»

Some of this testing, to be sure, is medically appropriate — though it's not clear how much.

The company has emphasized that this is a test flight and that the goal is «is to collect as much data as possible,» and the Wall Street Journal cautions that «Maiden launches of newly - designed rockets are notoriously risky.»

Konstantinos Manolopoulos, director of research at the Investment Bank of Greece, told CNBC that it is hard to predict the outcome of the stress tests, but acknowledged the fact that the capital position of these banks is much stronger.

That Monday's accident was the first fatal incident involving a fully autonomous vehicle indicates that arguments for their safety have merit, but much of that testing has occurred on highways, which are easier for self - driving cars to navigate than dense, urban environments.

The initiative takes ongoing tests Macy's has been conducting at its «petri dish» of a store in Woodbridge, N.J. — such as mobile checkout in store and new lighting to make shopping more inviting to 50 stores this year — as a launching pad for a series of initiatives it can roll out to a much greater number of stores in 2019.

Kim said there were two additional, larger tunnels that remain «alive and well» at the Punggye - ri test site beyond the existing one, which experts have said had collapsed after repeated explosions, rendering much of the site useless.

The entrants follow the growing push for digitization across the industry because it's much easier to test out than some of the major pieces of equipment involved in mining, said White.

The bad news is that they are not a good test of basic usability and ease of operation, which are always a key to the much larger market of regular customers.

To test how much meditation training you need to make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the moment.