He argues that because a child's suffering is so horrible and cannot easily be ex-plained, it forces people into a crucial test of faith: either we must believe everything or we must deny everything, and who, Paneloux asks, could bear to do the latter?

In performance testing, it is often crucial ( and often difficult to arrange ) for the test conditions to be similar to the expected actual use.

A subset of test cases that cover the most important functionality of a component or system are selected and run, to ascertain if the most crucial functions of a program work correctly.

With Hextall providing the critical stops at crucial times, the Flyers captured a third-straight Patrick Division title, and were able to gain revenge on the Rangers by beating them in six games, as well as surviving a tough seven-game test from a gritty Islanders club.

Eriksson turned round England's bid for qualification for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, with several crucial wins over lesser opposition before his first real test, England's rematch with Germany in Munich on 1 September 2001.

The outbreak of World War II provided a crucial test for the Materiel Division.

Meanwhile, he progresses well in his recovery, passing a crucial test to see how well he can handle himself on the street.

In recent years this test has gained authority, but the recommendation of the group 8 teacher along with the opinion of the pupil and its parents remain a crucial factor in choosing the right form of secondary education.

A crucial experiment is an experiment that is meant to test all possible hypotheses simultaneously.

Nawroz Mangal, the captain of the Afghanistan team for ODI and test matches, also belongs to the Khost Province. Dawlat Zadran the new Afghan Cricket paceman, who grabbed two crucial wickets against Pakistan ( in 1st International One Day against Full Member ) is also from Khost.

This test is also used as an important step in some job screening processes as the ability to see colour in such jobs may be crucial such as in military work or law enforcement.

The test results released in November 2000 seemed to back up Mr King's theory that the presence of water inside the reactors and the simultaneous shutting down of crucial equipment, generated a massive build-up of pressure that blew the valve apart

He was again selected for the 2001 Lions tour to Australia where he played in all three tests, and scored a crucial try in the first test in Brisbane.

Benson had actually failed a crucial test of psychological stability.

The volunteers, renamed the " Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps " ( HKVDC ), met their severest test in the bitter fighting that took place in the crucial weeks before the fall of Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941.

The Wada test, where sodium amobarbital is used to anaesthetise one hemisphere, shows that the left-hemisphere appears to be crucial in language processing ( Wada & Rasmussen, 1960 ).

In the second test at Mirpur, with England struggling for momentum on 107 – 3, Bell came to the crease at number 5 making crucial partnerships with Jonathan Trott ( 67 run partnership ), Matt Prior ( 98 run partnership ) and a 143-run stand with Tim Bresnan for the 6th wicket on his way towards his 10th Test match century, finally being dismissed for 138.

The crucial test result ( in a murine model of Streptococcus pyogenes systemic infection ) that preliminarily established the antibacterial efficacy of Prontosil in mice dates from late December 1931.

To design a way to test the Elaboration Likelihood Model, it is crucial to determine whether an argument is universally seen as strong or weak.

The concentration of this caustic soda is crucial to the test.

; Cycle beating: For the emission standards to deliver real emission reductions it is crucial to use a test cycle that reflects real-world driving style.

Many of his 13 test half-centuries were made in crucial situations, often batting with the tail.

Palios was not frightened to take tough decisions including a decision to ban Rio Ferdinand from the England team to play against Turkey in a crucial European Championship qualifier in 2004, for failing to take a drugs test despite widespread pressure from the remainder of the team, who threatened to go on strike but ultimately backed down.

In parallel to the efforts of Pierce, Silcott's lawyers requested access in November 1990 to his original interview notes, so that the seven pages from his crucial fifth interview — the notes he said were fabricated — could be submitted for an Electrostatic Document Apparatus ( ESDA ) test.

Speech, a critical tool to scaffold thinking and responding, plays a crucial role in the development of higher psychological processes ( Luria, 1979 ) because it enables thinking to be more abstract, flexible, and independent ( Bodrova & Leong, 1996 ).

It is also crucial to ensure that the process is as flexible as necessary without stress or " muri " ( overburden ) since this generates " muda " ( waste ).

Another reason for turning to C ++, which Stepanov recognized early on, was the C / C ++ model of computation which allows very flexible access to storage via pointers is crucial to achieving generality without losing efficiency.

Epinephrine has many functions in the body, regulating heart rate, blood vessel and air passage diameters, and metabolic shifts ; epinephrine release is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system.

However, equally important is the cellular response, which can not only kill infected cells in its own right, but is also crucial in controlling the antibody response.

The moral or political response is given by the conservative philosopher Richard M. Weaver in Ideas Have Consequences, where he describes how the acceptance of " the fateful doctrine of nominalism " was " the crucial event in the history of Western culture ; from this flowed those acts which issue now in modern decadence ".

Laud and Wentworth shared, with King Charles I, the same fate as many others who at some time in his life, found reasons to conspire against Boyle: an early demise, with Boyle showing his customary astuteness by putting on a convincing show of politically appropriate response at every crucial juncture.

The depressions of 1873 – 77 and 1890 – 91 played a crucial role in fostering the rise of industry: timidly in the 1870s and more decisively in the 1890s, industry grew with each crisis in response to the need of a damaged economy to improve its trade balance through import-substitution.

In response to this threat the government of Joseph Stalin ordered the evacuation of strategically crucial industrial centers to the East.

Along with dendritic cells, they are foremost among the cells that " present " antigen, a crucial role in initiating an immune response.

In response to the article, the co-op's board argued that having mixed-income tenants was crucial to the success of co-ops, and that the laws deliberately set aside apartments for those willing to pay market rates, such as Layton and Chow.

CaM mediates many crucial processes such as inflammation, metabolism, apoptosis, smooth muscle contraction, intracellular movement, short-term and long-term memory, and the immune response.

The p53 protein functions as a transcription factor with a crucial role in orchestrating the cellular stress response.

The African-American community felt that a response of action was crucial in curbing this terrorism given the lack of support and protection by State and Federal authorities.

The manifesto was crucial to the intellectual response to the war.

It is crucial for motivating certain behaviours, such as mobility, the pursuit of nutrition, the fight-or-flight response and sexual activity ( see Masters and Johnson's human sexual response cycle, where it is known as the arousal phase ).

In an emergency call, the recipient or emergency operator's ability to extract primarily linguistic information in threatening situations and to come up with the required response in a timely manner is crucial to the successful completion of the call.

The novitiate year is crucial, for it is then “… that the novices better understand their divine vocation, and indeed one which is proper to the institute, experience the manner of living of the institute, and form their mind and heart in its spirit, and so that their intention and suitability are tested .” Thus, the novices are given the opportunity for longer periods of prayer and spiritual reading as well as silence in order to reflect on the vocation God is offering and nature of their response.

Like the stress response, the inflammatory reaction is crucial for survival.

Combustors play a crucial role in determining many of an engines operating characteristics, such as fuel efficiency, levels of emissions and transient response ( the response to changing conditions such a fuel flow and air speed ).

They have a crucial role in excitable neuronal and muscle tissues, allowing a rapid and co-ordinated depolarization in response to triggering voltage change.

The novitiate year is crucial, for it is then “… that the novices better understand their divine vocation, and indeed one which is proper to the institute, experience the manner of living of the institute, and form their mind and heart in its spirit, and so that their intention and suitability are tested .” Thus, the novices are given the opportunity for longer periods of prayer and spiritual reading as well as silence in order to reflect on the vocation God is offering and nature of their response.

T cells are crucial to the immune response because they possess a unique ' memory ' system which allows them to remember past invaders and prevent disease when a similar invader is encountered again.

In 1993, in response to his experience with the Club of Rome, he founded the Club of Budapest to, in his words, " centre attention on the evolution of human values and consciousness as the crucial factors in changing course — from a race towards degradation, polarization and disaster to a rethinking of values and priorities so as to navigate today's transformation in the direction of humanism, ethics and global sustainability ".