The opposition Conservative party criticized the awarding of the contracts to ETS, and produced a dossier listing previous problems with ETS's service.

ETS's major competitor is Cambridge University, which administers the IELTS, FCE, CAE, and CPE.

* The 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, jointly celebrated by the two countries in 2002, was a significant landmark in the history of this friendship.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

Within eight months of Captain Video's debut, two other landmark series were launched-Tom Corbett, Space Cadet ( 8 / 50-6 / 55 ) and Space Patrol ( 3 / 50-2 / 55 ).

In some cases, such as Albury / Wodonga in Australia, the two cities are permanently divided by a state border, often one that strictly adheres to a geographical landmark, such as the Murray River that divides New South Wales from Victoria, and thus Albury from Wodonga.

The 47-story Singer Building, completed in 1908, was also designed by Flagg, who designed two landmark residences for Bourne.

By 1933, and his revision of the landmark 1907 Hatcher-Marsh-Lull monograph of all known ceratopsians, he retained his two groups and two unaffiliated species, with a third lineage of T. obtusus and T. hatcheri that was characterized by a very small nasal horn.

On October 11, 2009, Prince gave two surprise concerts at the glass-and-iron Grand Palais exhibition hall after visiting the landmark Paris building on the banks of the Seine.

During his tenure as prime minister, Brian Mulroney's close relationship with U. S. President Ronald Reagan helped result in both a landmark treaty on acid rain and the ratification of a free-trade treaty with the United States under which all tariffs between the two countries would be eliminated by 1998.

1947 saw two subsequently-outstanding films in production, Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean and Powell and Pressburger's Oscar-winning The Red Shoes, a landmark in British film-making, in part largely due to the creative cinematography of Jack Cardiff and his innovative use of the new technique of Technicolor.

* Ciconiae Nixae, a landmark listed in the 4th-century regionaries, but probably two separate sites, the Ciconiae, or " Storks ," perhaps a sculpture, and the altar to the di nixi in Region IX.

The major landmark and greatest pride of the city, its university, is spread throughout the city, but generally exists in two campuses.

That tradition continued through two albums with Terry Scott Taylor ( including the landmark, Equator ), two albums with Barry Kaye, two albums with Dave Perkins, two albums with Mark Heard, and two more albums with Taylor until the routine was broken with 1995's Lazarus Heart.

On 23 May 2012, the London 2012 Olympic Torch relay crossed over the bridge, where two of the torchbearers came together in a ' kiss ' to exchange the flame in the middle of Brunel's iconic landmark.

Higher up the village, the Church of St Nicholas has two towers: the main tower is over 100 ft ( 30 m ) high and a well-known landmark for miles around, and the smaller tower was built as a beacon to guide boats into Blakeney harbour.

This company produces two full-length jazz and hip-hop theatrical dance productions yearly ( one in late February and one in early June ) at their home in the Cultural Arts Center, as well as at Dothan's historical landmark Opera House.

Fortunately, the Scottsboro defendants benefited from their two landmark triumphs in the United States Supreme Court mostly from the fact that they were all relieved from their death sentences they received at their first trial in Scottsboro.

The two towns share the local landmark Black Mountain.

Its downtown features landmark buildings by the Orlando architectural firm of Ryan & Roberts, a partnership consisting of two women.

At the turn of the century two of Princeton Junction's landmark retailers closed.

The CTW conducted research in two ways: in-house formative research that informed and improved production, and independent summative evaluations, conducted by the Educational Testing Service ( ETS ) during the show's first two seasons, which measuring its educational effectiveness.

The evaluation phase consists of two parts: formative and summative.

Overall evaluations of the CATIE and other studies have led many researchers to question the first-line prescribing of atypicals over typicals, or even to question the distinction between the two classes.

Gardner and Conan Doyle, perhaps rather optimistically, interpreted the results of the three expert evaluations as two in favour of the photographs ' authenticity and one against.

In the mathematical model, reasoning about such data is done in two-valued predicate logic, meaning there are two possible evaluations for each proposition: either true or false ( and in particular no third value such as unknown, or not applicable, either of which are often associated with the concept of NULL ).

Assuming initially has value, two consecutive evaluations of the expression yield, respectively, and.

In 1977 Congress ordered two new evaluations of the IFV program, one by the GAO and one by the Department of the Army, under General Pat Crizer.

, two Krab (" Crab ") prototypes are built, and successfully completed all required evaluations and state acceptance trials.

The two main leaders of the RT had different evaluations of the SWP.

Unlike Deutsch's Algorithm, this algorithm required two function evaluations instead of only one.

Thus the Zimmermann Telegram triggered the United States ' entry into World War I ; and Allied reading of Nazi Germany's ciphers shortened World War II, in some evaluations by as much as two years.

During the mission, Stewart and McCandless participated in two extravehicular activities ( EVAs ) to conduct first flight evaluations of the Manned Maneuvering Units ( MMUs ).

U. S. Government-sponsored evaluations and challenge problems have helped spur over two orders-of-magnitude improvement in face-recognition system performance.

Enlisted personnel could have no single performance trait mark below 3. 0 ( on a 4. 0 scale ), and no recommendation lower than promotable for the previous two periodic evaluations.

In a study he was doing on rewards, he observed that when one of two men was chosen at random to receive a reward for a task, observers ' evaluations were more positive for the man who had been randomly rewarded than for the man who did not receive a reward.

There are two major areas of criminal evaluations in forensic psychiatry.

If the accuracy is adequate ( usually it is ), these formulas suggest an alternative evaluation of T: evaluate the open-loop gain and G < sub >∞</ sub > and use these expressions to find T. Often these two evaluations are easier than evaluation of T directly.

A standard tour is defined as at least two years of duty with no disciplinary action, above average evaluations, and adherence to physical and military bearing standards of the Navy Ceremonial Guard.

Empirical research regarding the consequences of OCBs has focused on two main areas: organizational performance and success and managerial evaluations of performance and reward allocation.

With C ++ 11, the most recent iteration of the C ++ programming language, usage of the term sequence point has been replaced by specifying that either one evaluation is sequenced before another, or that two evaluations are unsequenced.

# Between each declarator in each declarator sequence ; for example, between the two evaluations of in.

This means that x + h will be changed ( via rounding or truncation ) to a nearby machine-representable number, with the consequence that ( x + h )-x will not equal h ; the two function evaluations will not be exactly h apart.

She'd been caught lying on several sections of her application, and had flunked two standard psychiatric evaluations.

In addition to the two evaluations mentioned, a third evaluation was conducted, mid-way through the pre-pilot in order to probe the assumptions upon which the program was developed: questions needed to be answered with regards to the needs, interests and preferences of 14-and 15-year-old boys in order to determine what exactly would attract and hold them in a program specifically designed for their age group.