Yet this history is the litmus test.

The litmus test will be progress on security.

The true litmus test of budget expenditures is what actually gets delivered.

The first litmus test on European leadership concerns the practical problem of access to harbors.

Jerusalem is another on the ground issue that will be a litmus test for the Obama administration.

Liberalization in Mode 4 and sectors of particular interest to developing countries will be the litmus test.

The successful completion of the Doha multilateral trade negotiations would be a litmus test of our resolve.

History Litmus was used for the first time about 1300 AD by Spanish alchemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova.

So often they are the litmus test by which public confidence in the institution is either won or lost.

In fact, the government s success in clamping down on corruption, especially at sub national levels, will be a litmus test of its legitimacy.

Were Iran to agree to this offer, its suspension of nuclear research in Natanz while negotiations are ongoing would be the litmus test of its sincerity.

Indeed, in many ways, the article is a litmus test of where individual countries are in their own evolution toward full equality for men and women.

The true litmus test of budget expenditures is what actually gets delivered. Only an inclusive approach to reform can meet peoples expectations, and in turn spread contentment.

The Senate bill s provision on derivatives is a good litmus test the Obama administration and the Fed, in opposing these restrictions, have clearly lined up on the side of big banks.

And for me, I guess, the litmus test for whether this would work, and what it would mean, was always going to be bedtime stories, because that's sort of where the journey began. And there too the news is rosy. You know, at the end of the day, I go into my son's room.

The European Union s policy in the Middle East is the litmus test of its common foreign and security policy. Many Europeans share this belief, but, as the EU considers entering the fray of Middle East peace talks, it must respond to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon s jibe that in the region you are payers, not players.