| Their presence can be taken as the unfailing indicator, the litmus test, as it were, that the system under operation is a kakistocracy. |
| The first is that, once again, we have legislation that is a litmus test in terms of the difference between this Government and the Opposition. |
| By the 1900s, it had become the litmus test of public health among the medical profession and the urban middle class. |
| The debate over these little-known acts was a litmus test of the issues that lie hidden beneath Australia's rapid urbanisation. |
| Under the Federal Guidelines of 1971, statistical representation became the litmus test of discrimination. |
| According to some who have worked there, the White House counsel's office doesn't run candidates through an ideological litmus test. |
