We wanted to test and vet the business by growing it organically based on its merits in the marketplace.
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If you wanted to test a campaign ad, you held a focus group.
As part of a federal green initiative, the Pentagon wanted to test the iPad as document e-reader for its executives.
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She came up with the idea in February and wanted to test it by April 1st before tax season ran out on April 15th.
Dr Andrew Herxheimer wanted to test whether, in the case of Seroxat, a widely-used antidepressant, the scheme was set up to respond to reports of side-effects.
"I wanted to test this, " she says.
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They wanted to test it to 14g.
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"We wanted to test whether the salmon were able to recognise the otter as a threat using just chemical cues, and also to see whether they were detecting the smell of the predator's itself or of its diet, " said Dr Roberts, whose research was published in the Animal Behaviour Journal.
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They wanted to introduce prohibition We decided to test that one with a focus group!
The 52-year-old who, in 17 years in management has always wanted the chance to test himself amongst the English top flight, described his first shot at an English trophy as a "dream come true".
The government wanted to introduce a new test for so called 'non doms' and were launching two consultations.
One of the founders they backed wanted to hire someone as chief operating officer, test him out and then promote him to CEO.
So when the family of an elderly woman insisted that she be admitted to the hospital after stroke-like symptoms, he agreed to do so, even though her test results were negative and he wanted to send her home.
Although slightly offended I had to take a test even though they said everyone liked me and wanted to hire me, they had hired a consultant to see what conative makeup would be successful in the job, and my test results had to match that makeup.
Left-handed opener Butt - ignored for the Champions Trophy - was named in the one-day and Test squads as selectors wanted to avoid a reliance on makeshift openers.
The test subjects said they wanted to talk to their computer, but after five minutes of actually doing it, their throats were getting sore and the room, with everyone talking to their computers, was noisy and obnoxious.
"I missed out on a double century in the last Test in Kanpur and I wanted to make amends, " Sehwag said.
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One of the founders they backed wanted to hire someone as chief operating officer, test him out and then promote him to chief executive.
The report said head teachers and council officials also wanted to see a stronger literacy element and a test that would avoid commercial exploitation, such as the marketing of practice materials to parents.
When a large Southern California water system wanted to probe the vulnerabilities of its computer networks, it hired Los Angeles-based hacker Marc Maiffret to test them.
So Coe moved a nitrogen atom, too, and suddenly had a series of compounds to test that did exactly what Pfizer had wanted a drug to do.
We wanted to give our bowlers the best chance to win the Test match and for that we have to give them sufficient time to get Bangladesh out.
In fact, my test unit eventually ended up showing me something I wanted to buy.
Once they passed the test, they were able to apply to professors whose laboratories they wanted to work in full time in order to complete their theses.
The German government originally wanted the Berlin declaration to rise above day-to-day squabbles and to stand the test of time.
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This month's test suggests what many observers have long suspected: that most of those who wanted to take their money out have already done so illegally, whether by stuffing it into suitcases or by buying expensive jewellery at home and then selling it abroad.
Lord Justice Auld said the appeal court wanted the issue of what constitutes a particular social group to be scrutinised by Law Lords when the best test case had been identified.
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