American officials say the case is more important as a political test of Moscow's will to act than for its military implications.

But American tolerance is about to be put to a momentous political test.

That will depend on the wisdom and maturity of China's new leaders, who now face their biggest political test so far.

Today's assessment was also an important political test for the alliance.

This pernicious division applies a political test to all discussion.

When it comes to literature and the arts, we have no political test.

That kind of political test would violate department policy, and possibly the law.

Agreeing on how and when to limit spending may pose the hardest political test of all.

No state official could impose a political test for giving citizens a license.

The question is heading toward decisive tests, legal and political.