"You don't necessarily expect everything to be 100 percent successful" in any test fight, he said.
Teachers at three Seattle schools are refusing to give students district-mandated standardized exams, one of the most dramatic moves in an escalating fight nationwide over using test scores to evaluate teachers and schools.
For years before her arrest, Mrs Parks had been active with local civil rights groups, which were looking for a test case to fight the city's segregation laws.
It was set up in 2009 to fight threatened job cuts at military rocket test facilities on the Western Isles.
Of all the things I love about Test cricket, watching champion players fight off adversity with their actions, rather than their words, really inspires me.
The Irish swimmer claimed she was innocent of allegations that she had tampered with an out-of-competition drugs test and warned that she would fight the charge "all the way".
Hammersmith's Groves was given the sternest test of his unbeaten 10-fight career, climbing off the canvas in the third round and relying on animal instinct to stop his fellow unbeaten prospect in the sixth round.
England are cautious over Plunkett, who would face a fight with Sajid Mahood for his place in the Test XI even if fit.
The Los Angeles teachers union agreed earlier this month to use test scores in evaluations after a protracted fight with the district, and Chicago teachers staged a seven-day strike this past fall, in part, over efforts to judge them on students' test results.
To retail industry analyst Marshal Cohen of market research firm NPD Group, the greatest advantage for Spanx besides the obvious increase in visibility will be the capacity to road-test new products and categories without having to fight for department store space.
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But Harmison and Plunkett misfired and the visitors, who were clear underdogs and underprepared, put up a sprited fight which will send them into the second instalment of this four-Test series in good heart.
The game can be enormously challenging at times, requiring you to test and re-test your strategy, or come back later better equipped for the fight.
"If we have to go through a test every week, I don't see a problem with that if it's useful to fight what happened in other sports, " Nadal said at a press conference Saturday ahead of the VTR Open, which starts Monday.
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