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Example sentences for: litmus

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let's call it the unfolding of Vice President Gore's position on the great Joint Chiefs Gay Litmus Test issue was not sufficiently flip-floppy "to constitute a 'reversal.
On Meet the Press yesterday, Gore adviser Robert Shrum* attempted manfully to deny that his candidate had ever suggested he'd make support of his policy on gays in the military a "litmus test" for nomination to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
In the context of the Supreme Court, of course, "litmus test" clearly means an inquiry into a potential nominee's personal convictions--on, say, abortion or civil rights--prior to their nomination.
You see, my brother-in-law Bill “gets it,” my sister's words for the litmus test one uses for prospective friends.
A Time article suggests that Kosovo will be a litmus test for the "Albright Doctrine," which consists of carefully nursed personal relationships backed up by American military might.