| Their presence can be taken as the unfailing indicator, the litmus test, as it were, that the system under operation is a kakistocracy. |
| Ideas and the right to criticise them are the litmus test of a free society. |
| Well, the main litmus test, and it's written into the law, is that the U.S. parent company cannot directly manage or directly own the subsidiary. |
| If the litmus test for aerospace integration is completely interchangeable air and space communities, such a goal is probably unrealistic. |
| Under the Federal Guidelines of 1971, statistical representation became the litmus test of discrimination. |
| Now it appears that the infallible litmus test of whether one is on the right track is whether most people think the contrary. |
