Because there was no reliable test. Now we have the Sherlock Holmes' test, and there will no longer be any difficulty."
He would certainly have been hung had this test been in existence.
And if thou didst, and if the stone should resist so silly a test, that would add nothing to its value or reputation; and if it were broken, as it might be, would not all be lost?
I do not therefore hold her who is virtuous through fear or want of opportunity in the same estimation as her who comes out of temptation and trial with a crown of victory; and so, for these reasons and many others that I could give thee to justify and support the opinion I hold, I am desirous that my wife Camilla should pass this crisis, and be refined and tested by the fire of finding herself wooed and by one worthy to set his affections upon her; and if she comes out, as I know she will, victorious from this struggle, I shall look upon my good fortune as unequalled, I shall be able to say that the cup of my desire is full, and that the virtuous woman of whom the sage says 'Who shall find her?' has fallen to my lot.
Summerlee declared, with an acid smile, that he fully appreciated the difference between the Thames and the Amazon, which lay in the fact that any assertion about the former could be
tested, while about the latter it could not.
Lecount had succeeded in imposing on Miss Garth; and would, in any event, still declare, on the evidence of his own eyes, that the test by the marks on the neck had utterly failed.
The third remained to be tested yet; and the third might succeed.
To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits of the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race: "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have
tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides.
Having as it were reviewed her kingdom,
tested her power, and made sure that everyone was submissive, but that all the same it was dull, Natasha betook herself to the ballroom, picked up her guitar, sat down in a dark corner behind a bookcase, and began to run her fingers over the strings in the bass, picking out a passage she recalled from an opera she had heard in Petersburg with Prince Andrew.
Through a careful examination of the
test procedures, we found that the trend change was most likely the result of different
test speeds.
This study seeks to extend Kitsantas' (2002) work on whether psychology college students' examination scores are influenced by their use of self-regulatory processes during
test preparation and performance.
Laboratory professionals were specifically trained about the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of
test methods in relation to sample type, time between symptom onset and specimen collection, and disease prevalence.
In another school that I visited, the principal had a consultant work with her staff for 2 days on "Strategies for Increasing Your School's
Test Scores." This consultant explained to a group of concerned inner-city, teachers that they need not worry about the students who scored in the bottom quartile or about the students who scored in the top quartile, because the students in the middle had the power to improve the most.
Fifty-four percent of the sample had had an HIV
test within the last year, and 46% had had one longer ago or had never been
tested.
When colonoscopy first came into use 37 years ago, it was used as a follow-up
test after other screening methods yielded abnormal results.