When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Whatever confronts your faith can be a test but if it stands to oppose the content of your personality and the validity of your convictions then it's threat.
Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.
In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.
Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.
While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.
First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.
We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.
Women are gifts, open them with care, judge them with leniecy, test and weigh their depths, then accept those with true worth and value.
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match.
I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.
As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.
Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.
Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test.
