Senegal s Democracy Put to the Test

But Europe and the world are also being tested.

The test of intention embodied in draft article 4 was important.

The test of the plan of action will lie in its timely implementation.

But Greece is set to test Europe again, with a vengeance.

It is not our will that is being tested, but our understanding of reality.

Indeed, down through the ages they have served as the touchstone for Chinese leaders survival and success.

Today, the balance of rational reasoning is the only guarantee of international security and comprehension we cannot rely on imbalances of force.

BUDAPEST The economic and financial crisis has been a telling moment for the economics profession, for it has put many long standing ideas to the test.

The stakes for a peaceful regional order are too high for Israel and the United States to persist in refusing to put Syrian President Bashar al Assad s current peace offensive to the test.

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the resilience of the post Cold War security system in Europe is being tested.

Objections to reservations incompatible with the object and purpose of a treaty did not have the same legal effects as objections to reservations which had successfully passed the compatibility test.

So it is no surprise that cunning and deception form an essential part of Chinese diplomatic and corporate culture. Indeed, down through the ages they have served as the touchstone for Chinese leaders survival and success.

For years, the argument remained an abstraction, a debate over what might happen in the future, until the Oslo agreement with the PLO in 1993 put the competing perspectives to the test.

The reliance on the specific hardware of the IBM PC led to 1 2 3 being utilized as one of the two stress test applications, with Microsoft Flight Simulator, for true 100 compatibility when PC clones started to appear in the early 1980s.

The database can help countries identify different time tested adaptation options applied in other countries, and can also serve as an important input into the identification of opportunities for regional synergy during NAPA implementation.

What the EU learned from the subsequent four years of Balkan disasters under its management is now being tested by another major turning point and potential crisis when and how Kosovo is to become independent.

And Israel s continuing settlement construction on the West Bank has sharpened their sense that negotiations would not be productive, whereas the raft of UN resolutions supporting a two state solution could now be put to the test.

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.