Meanwhile, Ponting has defended Australia's rotation policy after first Test hero Mitchell Starc was rested for the Melbourne match, allowing Jackson Bird to make his debut.
The waivers could be organized around the Republican-friendly idea of federalism through which states serve as policy laboratories to test different approaches to common problems tailored to unique state needs and preferences.
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But competition can allow reformers and anti-reformers to test their policy recommendations out and see what works, and it can allow space where the right rules for the right places can evolve.
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The big test of the policy will come next year when Glasgow and Birmingham try to sell their houses.
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World events have also cooked up in such a way as to cause voters to feel that the real test on foreign policy is more commander in chief than chief peacemaker.
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If no adjustments are needed to the asset share, we test how this policy will perform in the future based on appropriate mortality and expenses, and interest crediting that is compared with an in-force illustration for the policy.
On the other hand, the test of a policy based on realism is whether it delivers results, and engagement on its own, as Mr Bush discovered in his chastened second term, seldom alters the behaviour of regimes that think they are acting rationally in their own vital interests.
There is no doubt that the recent focus on evaluating teachers through the use of test scores is bad policy.
If it lost on appeal, it could make token policy changes, daring us to test the new policies on yet another WTO case.
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Shadow treasury minister Chris Leslie said the news was "yet another blow to a downgraded chancellor who made keeping the confidence of the credit rating agencies the number one test of his economic policy".
As a result of the lack of policy mandates and capacity to fully test chemicals as they come to market, complete toxicological screening data are available for only 7 percent of the more than 84, 000 chemicals currently registered for use.
What type of policy do you have that allows me to test this to see if all these features and the usability really works for what I'm going to need it for.
Iraq will be the first test of whether he can get the policy right.
This is the first big test of Tony Blair's industrial policy.
The bottom line to the report is that policy discussions right now focus more on how to test students, what they should learn, how to make their schools better, and how to evaluate and improve teachers, instead of on the single biggest determiner of academic success: student motivation.
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Policy, research, statistics, planning, inspection, test- and exams, educational innovation, evaluation of diplomas, standardization of the Papiamentu language, legislation, and refresher courses.
For most of this year, the Bush strategy was to neutralise his perceived disadvantage on policy matters, in order to turn the election into a test of character and leadership.
That is the policy established by Gov. Jim Hunt in North Carolina, where test scores made the biggest gains in the nation last year.
This means both the time to test and learn, as well as the courage to reconsider policy positions.
The test will be turning such high-minded words into practical policy advice.
Some of the turbulence will test (but not break) the coalition, as specific policy disputes set flinty, small-state Tories against more tender-hearted, pro-European and environmentally minded Lib Dems.
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But the fact remains that by Bush's own standard of "intensive effort" set in 2002, the White House has not met that test, in large part because the president's foreign policy has largely focused on other matters, such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The crucial test is whether the country is willing to support the hard work and policy reforms that will sustain it.
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To me, the real crucial test is whether or not the Republican Party continues to support Bush on this policy because I suspected that if there is no real sign of improvement, and public opinion continues deteriorating, at some point, the Republican Party, sooner rather than later, will have to decide whether to take it - distance from the policy of the Bush administration.
It is also a huge test for some of the most important elements of President Barack Obama's foreign policy - the Obama doctrine, if you like.
In the same paper, his education spokesman David Willets has said he will "stand firm" against any Conservative revolt against the new policy, saying the leadership's refusal to back more educational selection was a "crucial test" for the party.
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