Bangladesh came within two votes of being granted Test status the last time the issue was discussed.
Some have asked for Bangladesh to be sent home from the World Cup and remove their Test status.
Sri Lanka, New Zealand, even Pakistan and the West Indies, did not appear good enough when they were first granted Test status.
Many of these Bangladesh players remind me of Sri Lanka the way they were before they got Test status, playing in a free, naive way.
It was a desperately disappointing outcome after they took England the full five days at Lord's and they have now lost 59 of their 68 matches since being given Test status.
Only two of England, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand will therefore need to change their mind, assuming of course the original five "yes" votes have been retained, and Test status will be theirs.
And it gave some credence to the remarks of the Irish Cricket Union's chief executive Warren Deutrom, who has complained of the "glass ceiling" that prevents associate members of the ICC from gaining Test status.
That has given the 6ft 3in, 19 stone Cole, who played four matches for the second-string Saxons last season but has started only 21 senior club games, an opportunity to cement his status as a Test prop-in-waiting.
But as knowledge of how to control the risks of flying accumulated as checklists and flight simulators became more prevalent and sophisticated the danger diminished, values of safety and conscientiousness prevailed, and the rock-star status of the test pilots was gone.
Smith hopes the Italian Rugby Federation's council can form a workable plan for the sport's future at that 19 December meeting and that the game's rulers act to help improve Italy's status at club and Test level.
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Scrum-half Mike Phillips has the chance to confirm his status as favourite for the Test team and he needs to have worked hard in training with Heaslip to avoid the clumsiness that we saw with Wallace and Mike Blair against the Royal XV.
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Standing up for Chinese sovereignty is a test of China's revived status as the major power in the region.
Because of his refusal to recognise the status of the so-called Super Series Test match in Sydney in 2004 between Australia and a Rest of the World XI.
The National Farmers' Union has voiced anger over the delay and insists Defra has lost the six test results and Devon needs the status as soon as possible.
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The questions appeared to be an attempt to determine how political the organizations were (which, after all, is the test for (c)(4) status).
Although the three plus months spent here at the start of 2012 falls short of the 183 days required for residency status in the U.S., the substantial presence test should be enough for most players to be considered U.S. residents for 2012.
He has been an ever present in the side since Kenya were granted one-day international status in 1996 and some say he is the best current batsman never to have played Test cricket.
It ruled that St Margaret's failed the charity test and issued a direction for it to amend its procedures, or risk losing its charitable status.
But ImClone is also trying to test a newer version of Erbitux it owns entirely--a difficult prospect given Erbitux's entrenched status, but still a threat to Bristol.
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