That the assessment of the contemporary situation advanced by John Paul II is not binding on the faithful was confirmed by Cardinal Ratzinger when he wrote in 2004 that,

Whilst Holt stated that his friendship with Johnson was reflected in the strong relationship between Australia and the US, former Australian diplomat and foreign affairs expert Alan Renouf was more cynical in his assessment of the situation.

* Richardson ordered the bombing of the submarine, based on his assessment of the overall military situation and the importance of his protecting Ascension Island as a critical link in the U. S. aerial resupply of the war effort.

His assessment of the situation among the hill principalities was correct, and the principalities were subjugated fairly easily.

Paul Krugman discussed the balance sheet recession concept during 2010, agreeing with Koo's situation assessment and view that sustained deficit spending when faced with a balance sheet recession would be appropriate.

The amount of support is enough to cover basic needs and eligibility is often subject to a comprehensive and complex assessment of an applicant's social and financial situation.

suggest a flexible approach based on harm reduction, “ Willingness to provide hormonal therapy based on assessment of individual patients needs, history and situation with an overriding goal of achieving the best outcome for patients rather than rigidly adhering to arbitrary rules has been successful .”

One harsh assessment came from Carl Schurz, who reported on the situation in the states along the Gulf Coast.

Johnston and Beauregard met with President Davis on April 13 and their assessment of the Confederate situation helped convince Davis that Johnston should meet with Sherman to negotiate a surrender of his army.

Inevitably, Hitler rejected such an assessment of the situation and carried on the offensive against the Soviets regardless.

Wheeler responded by challenging Westmoreland's assessment of the situation, pointing out dangers that his on-the-spot commander did not consider palpable, concluding: " In summary, if you need more troops, ask for them.

Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat ( also called hazard ).

As with other missions, the EOD operator provides the area commander with an assessment of the situation and of support needed to complete the mission.

:** Internal appraisals of the organization's SWOT, this needs to include an assessment of the present situation as well as a portfolio of products / services and an analysis of the product / service life cycle

Managers have come to view decision-making generally, and strategic thinking in particular, as a multi-stage process that starts with an assessment of the current situation, defining objectives, then determining how to reach these objectives.

* The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It by Sarah Bennett & Nancy Kalish ( 2006 ) Discusses in detail assessments of studies on homework and the authors ' own research and assessment of the homework situation in the United States.

Much of the documentation pertaining to the Concilium relies on Boniface and documents associated with his life, and while the saint was prone to rhetorical embellishment and exaggeration in his correspondence, his assessment of the situation in the Frankish church appears to be reliable, although in some details he was off by a few years — the last synod in the Frankish church appears to have been held in 695 in Auxerre.

# Sense making may be considered as the classical situation assessment step in decision making.

* Assessments have been introduced to run parallel with the Grades 1 to 6, thereby, enabling these students to experience an examination situation without the stress of a result, whilst gaining confidence and receiving a written assessment of their performance.

Agencies approval is based on a set of eligibility criteria and assessment of the family's financial situation.

Although there is no clear-cut way to appropriately evaluate bias in the assessment of students who are culturally and linguistically diverse, the examiner must carefully consider each situation individually in order to develop an appropriate hypothesis that can be used in the testing procedure.

: Every vessel must at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight ( day shape or lights by eyes or visual aids ) and hearing ( sound signal or Marine VHF radio ) as well as by all available means ( e. g., Radar, Automatic Radar Plotting Aid ( ARPA ), Automatic Identification System ( AIS ), GMDSS ...) in order to make a full assessment of the situation and risk of collision.

Goerdeler's assessment of the German diplomatic-military-economic situation had considerable influence on decision-makers in the British and French governments in 1939, who, based on Goerdeler's reports, believed that a firm Anglo-French diplomatic stand for Poland might bring about the fall of Hitler without a war, or failing that at least ensure that the Allies faced war on relatively auspicious economic terms.

The Social Institutions and Gender Index highlights the absence of current gender statistics, which prevents a more precise assessment of the situation of Turkmenistani women.

The shires of Wessex went back at least to the reign of King Ine, who probably also imposed a hidage assessment upon each for food rents and other services owed the Crown.

The second occupation was probably connected with Antoninus ' undertakings to protect the Votadini or his pride in enlarging the empire, since the retreat to the Hadrianic frontier occurred not long after his death when a more objective strategic assessment of the benefits of the Antonine Wall could be made.

Sir Harry Hinsley, official historian of British Intelligence in World War II, made a similar assessment about Ultra, saying that it shortened the war " by not less than two years and probably by four years "; and that, in the absence of Ultra, it is uncertain how the war would have ended.

One possibility “ involves supposing that the ' morality ' of the act is one thing, probably to do with the praiseworthiness or blameworthiness of the agent, and its rightness or wrongness another .” Jonathan Dancy rejects this interpretation on the grounds that Mill is explicitly making intention relevant to an assessment of the act not to an assessment of the agent.

Loudon's Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, 8 vols., ( 1838 ) is probably the most significant work on the subject in British history and included an account of all trees and shrubs that were hardy in the British climate, an international history of arboriculture, an assessment of the cultural, economic and industrial value of trees and four volumes of plates.

According to Zenkovsky ’ s assessment of Kirill ’ s heritage: “ Cyril, Bishop of Turov, was probably the most accomplished master of Orthodox theology and the Byzantine style of writing.

Well before the Vela Incident, American intelligence agencies had made the assessment that Israel probably possessed its own nuclear weapons.

Jorde and Wooding ( 2004 ) have argued that, because of the genetic variation within racial groups, when " it finally becomes feasible and available, individual genetic assessment of relevant genes will probably prove more useful than race in medical decision making.

Much probably remains to be discovered and a full archaeological assessment and history are still waiting to be written.

The assumption that his crime would have been excusable if he had been right in his first assessment of her is not challenged, but would probably be typical of the time the story was written, and that in which it is set.

He himself agreed with the critical assessment that he was probably the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70.

Giulio Cordara, a close friend of Ricci made probably the best assessment: I would have judged him most competent to guide the Society on a quiet and tranquil sea.

The tabula was probably based on the Orbis Pictus, a map of twenty years ' labour commissioned by Augustus and then kept by the Roman's treasury department for the assessment of taxes.

The personal demesne, or lands, of the earl was probably extensive in Donnchadh's time ; in 1260, during the minority of Donnchadh's descendant Countess Marjory of Carrick, an assessment made by the Scottish king showed that the earls had estates throughout the province, in upland locations like Straiton, Glengennet and Bennan, as well as in the east in locations such as Turnberry and Dalquharran.

A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

This problem of fair and equitable assessment of value is a difficult one to solve in that the determination of fair valuation is dependent on local assessors, who in general are non-professional and part-time personnel taking an individualistic approach to the problem.

This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.

It is not clear, however, whether they are thinking of all movable property or only of boats, trailers, aircraft or certain other types of personal property whose assessment would be advantageous to their particular towns.

Eighteen voted for assessment by the town in which it is located and eleven preferred assessment by the town in which the owner resides.

Of those who have an opinion, it seems that assessment by location is preferred.

There was one vote for location being the place where the property is situated for the greater portion of the twelve months preceding the assessment date.

To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.

Louis H. Grenier, clerk of the board, said that the appeals will be reviewed in December at the time the board is visiting new construction sites in the town for assessment purposes.

On the other hand, court decisions have made necessary " an individualized assessment to prove that an impairment is protected under the ADA.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

* general assessment: services only fair ; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company ; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly from a low base

Lucas is more cautious in his assessment of linguistic arguments as well.

An alternative approach to the comparison of Buddhist thought with Western philosophy is to use the concept of the Middle Way in Buddhism as a critical tool for the assessment of Western philosophies.

Diagnosis is based on the self-reported experiences of an individual as well as abnormalities in behavior reported by family members, friends or co-workers, followed by secondary signs observed by a psychiatrist, nurse, social worker, clinical psychologist or other clinician in a clinical assessment.

No large earthquake has occurred on the Hayward Fault near Berkeley in historic times ( except possibly in 1836 ), but seismologists warn about the geologic record of large temblors several times in the deeper past, and their current assessment is that a quake of 6. 5 or greater is imminent, sometime within the next 30 years.

In medicine, consciousness is examined using a set of procedures known as neuropsychological assessment.

In the initial assessment of coma, it is common to gauge the level of consciousness by spontaneously exhibited actions, response to vocal stimuli (" Can you hear me?

An important part of the physical exam is also assessment of the cranial nerves.

Pupil assessment is often a critical portion of a comatose examination, as it can give information as to the cause of the coma ; the following table is a technical, medical guideline for common pupil findings and their possible interpretations: