Sentences with phrase «test balloon»

In other states, utilities floated test balloons — offering up one or two units to test the regulatory waters — and their narratives reflected the results of those experiments.

Google will spend the next 12 months testing the balloons before introducing 20,000 of the devices commercially, according to The Guardian.

While Google has been testing these balloons in the U.S. for the past two years — they have a test site in Winnemucca, Nev. — this is one of the rare times they've actually been spotted by a human being.

The beer's a limited release now — it's only sold in California — but Lagunitas is certainly floating a test balloon for national distribution, sending samples to beer critics around the country.

Supercritical was officially a one - off for Lagunitas, but it came with all the hallmarks of a test balloon for a larger release.

Test balloons have also been spotted over Puerto Rico and Kansas.

Sadly, though, there is the distinct feeling that Pewter Games have made a test balloon, a game that teases something bigger yet to come.

«This is about using the opportunity of the Muncie Schools» funding crisis to float a test balloon for school takeover in Indiana and in the United States,» says Boltz.

When you have one book that you wrote, it is a very dangerous thing to put all your eggs in one basket, but when you have fifteen books available for sale, like I do, the risk to use one of them as a test balloon is mitigated.

If the recruiter has no «in - roads» for the opportunity, and is simply sending in your resume as a test balloon, you get no benefit from his involvement.