Sentences with phrase «testing ground»

Things like being able to slide down walls and jump from them, and feeling how tight the controls were really made it a good testing ground for new players.

First, you'll get a kind of testing ground for your own ideas; you'll get to see which branding tactics work and which ones are falling flat.

The best testing ground for alternative voting methods may be among scientists themselves.

Some residents say that makes the island an ideal testing ground for new ideas.

Test the ground before taking your dog for a walk.

From the early years of flight until the late 1930s, air racing was the single most important testing ground for engineering advancements.

The tennis tournament, he said, is a great testing ground as sports technology has improved in the last year.

Fact is, he sees this type of downturn as an excellent testing ground.

Developed processes for testing ground water and other available water resources to determine if they could be cleaned or not.

He said this meant Australian freshwater fish provided a rare testing ground for theories about evolution and the role of factors such as habitat, diet and competition in shaping evolutionary processes.

The original motivation was to facilitate a platform for my friends who were artists; to put in motion a sort of testing ground for a solo exhibition.

It could also function as a good testing ground for strategies and trading styles for more experienced traders.

Summer is the ideal testing ground for this issue.

One of the things that I love about smoothies is that they are a great testing ground for trying out new foods and flavour combinations.

Established model store in Joliet, IL to provide training location for new managers as well as testing ground for new initiatives in merchandising and store operations.

Because Facebook gives you such specialized information about who your audience is, and what they interact with, it's a perfect testing ground for new ideas, products, services, or other innovations.

The show will complement the Zabludowicz Collection's annual Testing Ground programme, which includes projects organised by MA Curating students from art schools across the capital.

This will also be an early testing ground as to the diplomacy and co-operation between the mayor of Liverpool and the metro mayor.

Mojave is a private testing ground secluded in the wilderness of Nevada.

FNJ: I first became involved with Zabludowicz Collection in 2013, when they invited me to take part in their first Testing Ground Masterclass workshop for emerging artists.

The latest update to the app, which acts as sort of a beta testing ground for new features, adds Microsoft's digital assistant as a bot, along with a couple of other notable features.

Gravity is heavy, atmosphere is thick, rockets — even simple ones — tend to explode, and the corporate testing ground is strewn with private orbital - services start - ups that have crashed and burned.

In this instalment of We Like Short Shorts, Felix Hubble looks at a homage to classic uprising exploitation films, the practical effects testing ground of TREEVENGE

Hi John, Indeed, the agricultural testing ground theory holds strong.

Today's Google Doodle celebrates Japanese geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi, whose research helped reveal the insidious spread of radioactive fallout from the US nuclear testing ground in the Pacific.

Instead, he said he believed that because of its tumultuous political climate, «Ukraine was targeted by bad actors who are using it as a cyberweapon testing ground over the past couple of years.»

Barcelona are testing the ground today over the prospect of signing Arsenal midfielder Alex Song.

As it becomes a driverless - car testing ground.

It's a traditional testing ground for popular young artists whose market dealers and collectors are attempting to turn mainstream: Lesley Vance, who's represented by the influential Los Angeles gallery David Kordansky, has an MFA from California Institute of the Arts («CalArts») and a work up for sale at Phillips that's estimated from $ 25,000 to $ 35,000.

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Instead, The Garden is an active testing ground for the grocery delivery startup, and one that it constructed in less than 48 hours.

The Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory was built in the 1950s as a radiation testing ground by the Air Force and weapons manufacturer Lockheed.

The permit allows Uber back into its home state and the chief testing ground for self - driving cars, where 26 other companies, including Alphabet, Tesla, and Ford, are competing for a piece of the autonomous vehicle market and have obtained state permits.

The most populous nation on earth instated the ban in 2000 for fear of corrupting its youth, but will now allow for distribution of consoles in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone — a 29 - square - kilometer testing ground for new economic reforms established last year.

The Kremlin's increasingly aggressive efforts to control social media, however, seem to have made Russia the immediate testing ground for Facebook's most complicated questions about balancing user rights, government demands and the quest for profit for shareholders.

The Phoenix area was added a year ago, and quickly became the company's main testing ground, with 400 employees and more than 150 autonomous cars driving local roads because of «favorable regulatory environment, favorable weather conditions,» according to a company document.

China seems to be the world testing ground for some of the most ridiculous banking rules.

We did want to try it in London first, however — not only because I live there, but also, I am afraid, because the enormous expense of launching a new show in America is a major factor for avoiding it as an initial testing ground.

The Chinese successfully tested a ground - launched satellite interceptor earlier this year, and prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraqi forces tried to jam signals from U.S. navigation satellites by transmitting radio noise in an attempt to overwhelm GPS receivers.

«It's been 25 years since the last nuclear test, and computer simulations have become our virtual test ground.

Mini-organ models promise enormous advantages for understanding basic human biology, teasing apart human disease processes, and offering an accurate testing ground for finding or vetting drug therapies.

A promising test ground for probing motivation is Wikipedia, a website used by a remarkably broad swath of humanity as a one - stop shop for basic information on almost any topic.

For Cohen, the chromosome 21 map was not the first step in a chromosome - by - chromosome approach, but a technological testing ground for his real goal — to map all the human chromosomes in one fell swoop.