To distract his thoughts he drove that day to the village of Vorontsovo to see the great balloon Leppich was constructing to destroy the foe, and a
trial balloon that was to go up next day.
In Eisenman's Minotaur Hunt, a mural presented as an installation at New York's
Trial Balloon Gallery earlier this year, bulky Amazons hunted down virile Cubist icons amid a throng of spectators who grappled and shoved with spears and swords, as if in a war scene by Uccello.
But the
trial balloon story is a perfectly legitimate exercise, so long as that is what the article says it is presenting.
Joey Salceda has floated a
trial balloon: We need to bring in Chinese or even Burmese labor, he said.
McFarland, a Fox News national security analyst who ran as a Republican in 2006 for the New York Senate seat, has said that the rumours could just be a "
trial balloon" out by Albany rather than Washington.
As such, what Turki was saying might best be viewed as a
trial balloon rather than adopted policy.
Democrats and Pro-Israel Lobbies Slam Republican Senator's Call to Halt Israel Aid [Haaretz] Earlier: Cantor's Foreign Aid '
Trial Balloon' Is Popped
The New York, City mayor takes the air out of Washington Post columnist David Broder's fantasy Bloomberg-Chuck Hagel presidential ticket
trial balloon.
But the mammoth
trial balloon the federal government is floating--privatization of Social Security--cannot replicate the benefits of the program now in place.
His announcement is viewed as a
trial balloon to gauge public sentiment about future policy.
Apparently flushed with victory after imposing an unmerited financial settlement on the alternative-paper publishers NT Media LLC and Village Voice Media LLC for ending their competitions in Cleveland and Los Angeles, the Antitrust Division is floating a
trial balloon about stopping the JOA dissolution.
"It's a
trial balloon," cautions the show's exec producer Marlaine Selip.
trial balloon - a test of public opinion 
trial balloon - a balloon sent up to test air currents