Lincoln ’ s assessment of the political issue for the 1860 elections was that, " This question of Slavery was more important than any other ; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present.

A major critical issue in considering the Georgics is the assessment of tone ; Virgil seems to waver between optimism and pessimism, sparking a great deal of debate on the poem's intentions.

The second problem of complexity is the issue of how to protect parts that have evolved to represent good solutions from further destructive mutation, particularly when their fitness assessment requires them to combine well with other parts.

Whilst these impacts can be included in a detailed environmental impact assessment, a key issue has been how to present these assessments alongside estimates of those costs and benefits that can be expressed in monetary terms.

The requirement to issue a third opinion regarding management's assessment was removed in 2007.

The PCAOB intends to issue further guidance to help companies scale their assessment based on company size and complexity during 2007.

The scholar H. Pearce has taken issue with this assessment, writing that, compared to Kaye-Smith ’ s tale, " Sanctuary " is '... longer, better written and more explicitly political, specifically around issues of race-rather than class as in " Mrs Adis ".

It is an important issue in a wide range of disciplines including economics, health care, adoption, political economy, insurance, worker safety, environmental impact assessment, and globalization.

Napolitano made multiple apologies for any offense veterans groups had taken at the reference to veterans in the assessment, and promised to meet with those groups to discuss the issue.

In transactions of old wine with the potential of improving with age, the issue of provenance has a large bearing on the assessment of the contents of a bottle, both in terms of quality and the risk of wine fraud.

When two or more towns share an operating budget for something, the governing body of that entity will typically issue each town an assessment for its operation.

An article published in the June 2011 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology < nowiki > </ nowiki > showed that adding OVA1 to a physician's preoperative assessment of a woman's ovarian mass would identify more ovarian and ovarian related cancers, than a physician's preoperative assessment alone.

" The party called on President Viktor Yuschenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to issue a political assessment of the actions in Zakarpattia and Crimea, called on the National Security and Defense Council to draft a plan to restrict separatist actions, and called on the Foreign Affairs Ministry to declare all the citizens that participated in the October 25 congress as persona non grata in Ukraine.

An overriding issue in any type of forensic assessment is the issue of malingering and deception.

" In March 1998, the National Science and Technology Council ’ s Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and the The Mississippi River / Gulf of Mexico ( MR / GM ) Watershed Nutrient Task Force developed and approved an assessment plan calling for six teams of experts from inside and outside of government to perform in-depth studies examining the issue of hypoxia and the watershed – Gulf system including oceanographic, hydrologic, agricultural and

US Senator George Mitchell was to lead an international body to provide an independent assessment of the decommissioning issue.

A risk governance deficit is a failure in the identification, framing, assessment, management and communication of a risk issue or of how it is being addressed.

Fitness to plead, and mental state at the time of the offence are indeed issues given consideration, but the mental state at the time of trial is also a major issue, and it is this assessment which most commonly leads to the use of mental health legislation to detain people in hospital, as opposed to their getting a prison sentence.

It addressed the issue by using quantitative risk assessment, declaring that if a carcinogenic food additive was present at a concentration of less than 1 part in 1, 000, 000, the risk was negligible.

On this issue, the assessment said " Iraq has been vigorously trying to procure uranium ore and yellowcake.

In her decision, Mactavish addressed the issue of personal responsibility as follows: " An individual must be involved at the policy-making level to be culpable for a crime against peace ... the ordinary foot soldier is not expected to make his or her own personal assessment as to the legality of a conflict.

Kuhl said he couldn't agree more with Cheney's assessment that combating terrorists around the world stands as the top issue of this campaign.

In Michigan, most local government functions – police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Middlesex County ( as in the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts ) governmental functions such as property tax assessment and collection, public education, road repair and maintenance and elections are all conducted at the city and town level and not by county government.

Among the principal governmental functions vested in Alabama counties are law enforcement ; tax assessment, levy and collection ; administration of decedent's estates and probate matters ; maintenance of real and personal property title records ; construction and maintenance of public roads and bridges ; and maintenance of the county courthouse, which provides office space for various county officials and departments.

Most other local government functions – police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc .— are the responsibility of individual cities and townships.

In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

An engineering or property condition assessment ( PCA ) would include a review of building systems to evaluate deferred maintenance items that can materially affect the operation and value of a property.

A life-cycle assessment ( LCA, also known as life-cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle-to-grave analysis ) is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life from-cradle-to-grave ( i. e., from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling ).

Security programs overseen by NIST and CSE focus on working with government and industry to establish more secure systems and networks by developing, managing and promoting security assessment tools, techniques, services, and supporting programs for testing, evaluation and validation ; and addresses such areas as: development and maintenance of security metrics, security evaluation criteria and evaluation methodologies, tests and test methods ; security-specific criteria for laboratory accreditation ; guidance on the use of evaluated and tested products ; research to address assurance methods and system-wide security and assessment methodologies ; security protocol validation activities ; and appropriate coordination with assessment-related activities of voluntary industry standards bodies and other assessment regimes.