decisive test

Gimblet gazed at it with all the emotions of the scientist whose theory has stood the decisive test.

The decisive test of a popular vote accepting the amended constitution as a whole, remained, however, yet to be undergone.

But neither of these, as has been shown, was a decisive test.

It is a practical work, prepared by an experienced teacher, and already submitted to the decisive test of the schoolroom.

But it raised champions, even among the Hellenistic Jews, who were still attached to their Faith when the decisive test came.