First, he has chosen a single issue, postal privatisation, as a litmus test of reform.
At the completion of the four-year test period, health care reform could be revisited armed with the results of the HCA test under government operations.
It will be an early test of whether health reform works to cover the uninsured and stays within its budget.
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Wall Street analysts see a pending pension reform as a test of Mr Uribe's ability to balance the books.
Samsung's ill-fated car business, which has come to represent the chaebol's resistance to reform, was the test of Mr Kim's resolve.
If the airline does finally crash, it will be a big blow to Greece's reforming prime minister, Costas Simitis: it has become a test-case in his campaign to reform his country's slovenly public sector.
Hashimoto's reform push will be the acid test of his leadership.
It was Mr Brown who, at the start of his decade-long tenure as chancellor, insisted on stripping the Bank of England of its role in supervising banks, a reform that failed its first real test with Northern Rock.
Fiscal debates will again dominate Congress' agenda for early 2013, but other contentious battles such as immigration reform will also split House Republicans and could test Boehner's hold on the speaker's gavel.
Mr. Yeltsin -- and the Russian military-industrial complex and security apparatus to which he is increasingly beholden -- have asserted that the repeal of statutes derided as the "legacy of the Cold War" is a litmus test of the U.S. commitment to Russian reform.
For example, we agree with Silk that any future devolution of income tax powers is contingent on a period of assignment, reform of the Barnett formula and a referendum to test the will of the Welsh people.
Mr Hughes said the "test issue" of co-operation with the government was electoral reform.
"Support for paycheck protection is the litmus test of whether we are serious and whether we are credible" about reform, Lott said on the Senate floor.
Campaign-finance reform may be one product which, despite scoring well in Wisconsin's test market, flops when it goes national.
Centre-right UMP President Jean-Francois Cope said the rally would be a "test" for the president because there were "clearly millions of French people who are probably concerned by this reform".
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