litmus-test

I do not think that agenda has to necessarilyÂincludeÂrunning people for political office or the formation of some kind of litmus-test pledge, but there does need to be a clear purpose articulated so the next ring of like-minded folks can begin to hold onto a common agenda.

Bruce Reyes-Chow: The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements: Similarities and Differences Bruce Reyes-Chow 2011

It is a new litmus-test issue that establishes political credibility.

Jan McGirk: Fast and Furious Opposition to High Speed Rail Gets U.S. Off Track Jan McGirk 2011

I do not think that agenda has to necessarilyincluderunning people for political office or the formation of some kind of litmus-test pledge, but there does need to be a clear purpose articulated so the next ring of like-minded folks can begin to hold onto a common agenda.

Bruce Reyes-Chow: The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements: Similarities and Differences Bruce Reyes-Chow 2011

Since autoimmune disease primarily affects women, over the past twenty years researchers have used female mice as the litmus-test lab animal for determining whether a chemical pollutant might cause or exacerbate autoimmune disease.

The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

Since autoimmune disease primarily affects women, over the past twenty years researchers have used female mice as the litmus-test lab animal for determining whether a chemical pollutant might cause or exacerbate autoimmune disease.

The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

The critics who then turn this into an overarching meta-ideology, with an eye towards systematizing either criticism or taste-making into a reified logical, litmus-test, categorized, taxonomic system, run into trouble.

The ‘woefully incompetent’ and ‘pugnacious’ André Alexis 2010

Although a Senate vote is unlikely this year, proponents are trying to make it a litmus-test issue in the presidential race.

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

Although a Senate vote is unlikely this year, proponents are trying to make it a litmus-test issue in the presidential race.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

The bill passed but the Senate version failed and the debate around the bills have given the subject a litmus-test quality.

Betsy Markey Explains Vote Against Extending Unemployment Benefits 2010

That's less time spent on wedge litmus-test social issues like abortion or questions about gun rights - they'll even talk less about gay marriage while twisted up on whether or not her lifestyle factors into the jurisprudence (although, we still get - yes - another SCOTUS nominee hearing where affirmative action [the real 800 pound gorilla in the room] is relegated to testimonial footnote).

Charles D. Ellison: Outing Ms. Kagan 2010