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  • I did a quick evaluation. I'd probably have a bruise on my hip, and I was scared, but that was the worst of it.   (source)
    evaluation = consideration and judgment
  • In preparing litigation on behalf of the children we were representing, it was clear that these shocking and senseless crimes couldn't be evaluated honestly without understanding the lives these children had been forced to endure.   (source)
    evaluated = considered and judged
  • Anyway, in the first stage of initiation, we keep transfers and Dauntless-born initiates separate, but that doesn't mean you are evaluated separately.   (source)
    evaluated = judged
  • I sometimes think Atticus subjected every crisis of his life to tranquil evaluation behind The Mobile Register, The Birmingham News and The Montgomery Advertiser.   (source)
    evaluation = careful thought and judgment
  • I did monthly psych evaluations on each member of the crew.   (source)
    evaluations = assessments (judgments)
  • Eventually, I could put out ears into all parts of the city, with various men, listening and evaluating.   (source)
    evaluating = thinking carefully and making judgments
  • These observers are here to evaluate what you have learned.   (source)
    evaluate = consider and make a judgment about
  • There was something about making the person with the head injury speak a favorite nursery rhyme so that speech patterns — slurring, et cetera— could be evaluated.   (source)
    evaluated = thought of carefully and judged or learned from
  • The county hereby recommends the minor to be immediately admitted to psychiatric evaluation for possible admission into a facility that can best support his needs.   (source)
    evaluation = the process of making a careful judgment about something
  • "That is quite an accurate evaluation of the situation," said the voice coldly "Then why did you help us at all?" shouted Milo angrily.   (source)
    evaluation = analysis and judgment
  • Every cadet possessed a burning desire to be recognized, but never noticed, as his piercing blue eyes evaluated his corps.†   (source)
  • My mom and the doctor had no idea why I was smiling as we rolled into the waiting room while he wrote up his evaluation of me.†   (source)
  • We're going to use it to do a bit of market research, find out exactly what the average Hogwarts student requires from a joke shop, carefully evaluate the results of our research, then produce products to fit the demand.†   (source)
  • First, it ruled that Judge Oliver should not have allowed a Savannah police detective to testify as an "expert" for the prosecution on points of evidence that the jurors were competent to evaluate on their own—the smeared blood on Danny Hansford's hand, the chair on his pants cuff, the fragments of paper on top of the gun.†   (source)
  • Each week he evaluates our progress and makes a note on the wall.†   (source)
  • Calipers are used to evaluate his feet, the length of his fingers, and the distance between his eyes and his navel.†   (source)
  • Because once a kid had been evaluated, Dell could complete the district's form in a flash, giving everyone in a specific category the same rating.†   (source)
  • The teachers think only of grades when evaluating a student.†   (source)
  • From that point on, there are leagues for every age class, and at each of those levels, the players are sifted and sorted and evaluated, with the most talented separated out and groomed for the next level.†   (source)
  • When she was finished she stepped back and evaluated herself.†   (source)
  • …American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 61, no. 6 (June 1951); R. W Green, "Carcinoma of the Cervix: Surgical Treatment (A Review)," Journal of the Maine Medical Association 42, no. 11 (November 1952); R. T Schmidt, "Panhysterectomy in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the Uterine Cervix: Evaluation of Results," JAMA 146, no. 14 (August 4, 1951); and S. B. Gus-berg and J. A. Corscaden, "The Pathology and Treatment of Adenocarcinoma of the Cervix," Cancer 4, no. 5 (September 1951).†   (source)
  • Or take a table to be independently evaluated and learn that the veneer was of a type not used, or invented, in the 1770s?†   (source)
  • 40 Both women, said Woodall, would accompany the team to Base Camp and he would choose one up Everest after evaluating their performance of them to continue during the trek. amp, On April 1, during the second day of my journey to Base C was surprised to run into February, Hackland, and de Klerk on the g out of the mountains, bound for ow Namche Bazaar, walkin trail bel Kathmandu.†   (source)
  • On the morning of my evaluation it is the smell that wakes me up.†   (source)
  • We saw two psychiatrists and had three separate psychological evaluations.†   (source)
  • ; following my evaluation which extended over three hours, I referred her to McLean Hospital for admission.†   (source)
  • He walked from one booth to another, evaluating the goods with a buyer's eye, despite his meager supply of coins.†   (source)
  • I did get stuck with one admin job that had nothing to do with mission planning: evaluating the E5s.†   (source)
  • At the meat counter, she evaluated the options.†   (source)
  • Reichs University paid for a team of evaluators to sort the offers and see if anything might benefit Rachel.†   (source)
  • Baseball had hundreds of scouts—guys who spent 365 days a year traveling the country to evaluate teenagers.†   (source)
  • The fair's Committee on Grounds and Buildings had asked Burnham, quietly, to evaluate a number of locations in the city.†   (source)
  • In my previous job, I was in the dark about where I stood until, like, quarterly evaluations.†   (source)
  • Most Creation myths begin with a 'paradoxical unity of everything, evaluated either as chaos or as Paradise,' and the world as we know it does not really come into being until this is changed.†   (source)
  • Another executive, a self-described "sensory evaluation specialist," emphasized the importance of pleasant smells.†   (source)
  • And while she might be crazy, was she so different in her evaluation of his work from the hundreds of thousands of other people across the country , ninety percent of them women , who could barely wait for each new five-hundred, page episode in the turbulent life of the foundling who I risen to marry a peer of the realm?†   (source)
  • It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one…and most of us knew someone who had been injured or killed by a Downworlder.†   (source)
  • They're like little report cards for the all-important auditions that were required for placement in orchestras and for year-end evaluation.†   (source)
  • After that Clarke girl had finished evaluating Octavia and determined she only had a sprained ankle, Bellamy had carried her over toward the trees where they'd spent the night.†   (source)
  • "You bring her for us to evaluate," I said.†   (source)
  • She smiled, amused at her own evaluation.†   (source)
  • At the end of the quarter the students were asked to write an essay evaluating the system.†   (source)
  • They longed for bygone eras, such as the Middle Ages, which now became enthusiastically reappraised after the Enlightenment's negative evaluation.†   (source)
  • He was letting them look him over, and guardedly evaluating them in return.†   (source)
  • She evaluated and reflected over what she read.†   (source)
  • At home I reviewed the failure and tried to evaluate my new position.†   (source)
  • She's in the Fields of Asphodel, standing before the judges right now, being evaluated.†   (source)
  • Invoices …. employee evaluations ….†   (source)
  • But her background was such that the district court ordered a psychiatric evaluation.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were raisins, beady and dark, and they twitched their way over me in almost predatory evaluation.†   (source)
  • In evaluating the intentions and feelings of others, his ability to separate the real situation from his own mental projections is very poor.†   (source)
  • That's why I took a chance that you'd see me-I want you to evaluate my client.'†   (source)
  • We ask you to evaluate your mass media carefully.†   (source)
  • He wants her to come twice a week for some evaluations.†   (source)
  • Every six months, prisoners were called before the prison board to have their classifications evaluated.†   (source)
  • I lean over and evaluate Rosie's toenails, running my hands along the underside of her foot.†   (source)
  • Guidelines established by Congress in the 1980s required federal judges to impose set sentences for drug crimes, regardless of the specific circumstances of a case, and without discretion to evaluate the person being sentenced.†   (source)
  • The captain studied the chart as his navigator gave the necessary orders, evaluating the tactical situation.†   (source)
  • Evaluation.†   (source)
  • Deets had ridden on, to evaluate the trail.†   (source)
  • She was looking at me, openly evaluating.†   (source)
  • But that is far too bleak an evaluation.†   (source)
  • The instructors evaluated us and ranked everything we did, including our runs and swims.†   (source)
  • Would you like to be paraded around the ballrooms of London society like some prize horse there to have its breeding capabilities evaluated?†   (source)
  • In the evaluation the master chief had stated that Adam was his "FIRST CHOICE for the toughest jobs."†   (source)
  • Their robot had to successfully complete a complex series of underwater tasks, but about half the competition score would be based on this technical evaluation.†   (source)
  • I hesitated, giving him an evaluating stare.†   (source)
  • He sat down behind his desk again and resolved to embark upon a mature and systematic evaluation of the entire military situation.†   (source)
  • It is his final evaluation for each subject: evaluations that turned out better than he-and perhaps even Professor Trilling-had figured.†   (source)
  • After much discussion'and some helpful lobbying from Jamie'it was decided I could work for Harriet through the holidays, at which point we'd 'reconvene on the subject' and 'evaluate its impact on my grades and school performance.'†   (source)
  • In spite of the social worker's continued reassurances, in spite of her therapists' evaluations that she was making solid progress, we still worried.†   (source)
  • He had to pass this debriefing and psych evaluation, and shaking hands not withstanding, he would demonstrate that he was just fine.†   (source)
  • The conscience of a race is the gift of its individuals who see, evaluate, record ….†   (source)
  • One of the first rules of air reconnaissance was "Ignore the scenery"; analysis and evaluation were not the job of the pilot.†   (source)
  • If she could gather enough of them, she could issue a warrant for a psychiatric evaluation.†   (source)
  • He tried to evaluate the reality.†   (source)
  • "Good treatment makes me think I am admired, beloved…… So I dismiss my guard and grow weak, silly, vain," he had once written in his youth, in the throes of painful self-evaluation.†   (source)
  • Janice and Amos are isolated for observation and evaluation.†   (source)
  • As you can probably guess, my view leads to constantly evaluating my performance and the performances of those I count on.†   (source)
  • The Englishman said that he, when captured, had made and kept the following vows to himself: To brush his teeth twice a day, to shave once a day, to wash his face and hands before every meal and after going to the latrine, to polish his shoes once a day, to exercise for at least half an hour each morning and then move his bowels, and to look into a mirror frequently, frankly evaluating his appearance, particularly with respect to posture.†   (source)
  • He liked evaluating TB tests.†   (source)
  • There, a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation found him to be withdrawn and socially maladjusted.†   (source)
  • One was supposed to describe, not to explain, to catalogue facts, not to evaluate them: Mr. Smith had been defrozen, Mr. Jones had not; that was all.†   (source)
  • It's differences in how people evaluate speakers of languages.†   (source)
  • You never knew when the chief stewardess might show up to run a checklist, observing the dress and work habits of the girls, an evaluation procedure most of them dreaded.†   (source)
  • These would also be the official transcripts used by the Supreme Court as part of their evaluation of the case in the winter.†   (source)
  • I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.†   (source)
  • As one of the brigade medical personnel, I decided to write a memorandum to Captain Ono, the physician-in-charge, advising that Corporal Endo be evaluated and possibly even relieved of his duties and disarmed; but as with much else in wartime, it was lost, or ignored.†   (source)
  • Yet all of his reactors are at work—summing up, evaluating, rejecting.†   (source)
  • I know you will objectively evaluate these observations.†   (source)
  • This was where the major merchant caravans from Luskan put in, where the dwarves came to trade, and where the vast majority of craftsman, scrimshanders, and scrimshaw evaluators, were housed.†   (source)
  • First of all, I need to know why you won't submit to a psychological evaluation.†   (source)
  • I've taught courses in mental evaluation at the Medical College in Richmond, and at the University of Virginia.†   (source)
  • "Mannie," said Wyoh, "that's a most self-centered evaluation."†   (source)
  • A few months ago, in a meeting like this one, Standard engineers evaluated a type of ignition coil—the tiny voltage transformer that sits on top of a spark plug and converts the battery's 12 volts into the 30,000 volts needed to fire a spark.†   (source)
  • As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is.†   (source)
  • This gave him time to evaluate different people's grass and bushes and cars, and to ponder.†   (source)
  • She was evaluating him, and all the chances, all the odds.†   (source)
  • Almost ironically, the person of Martin Luther King in life and in death became the touchstone for a whole new evaluation among black thinkers.†   (source)
  • "I will have both situations evaluated," Karellen replied.†   (source)
  • The bond the probate court had had her post was perhaps their evaluation in dollars of how much did stand in her way.†   (source)
  • Each of us went about our business, with slow deliberateness, each being very careful not to stare at the other and at the same time sneaking glances, appraising, evaluating.†   (source)
  • What's the Biblical evaluation of sex: BRADY It is considered "Original Sin.†   (source)
  • I never created a test to evaluate the trip, nor did the thought ever occur to me.†   (source)
  • Evaluation really.†   (source)
  • And having now confirmed and completed our evaluation of the evidence and our decision on a course of action, this Government feels obliged to report this new crisis to you in fullest detail.†   (source)
  • She leaned back slightly, as if evaluating my expression.†   (source)
  • Am I really evaluating how best to deceive my friend?†   (source)
  • She could sense their subtle gazes on her, examining her, evaluating.†   (source)
  • I was taken to see an educational consultant that autumn and the woman did an evaluation.†   (source)
  • Knowing his story now, I could guess how this evaluation must disturb him.†   (source)
  • In my case, that would have meant being evaluated in the intelligence area.†   (source)
  • The evaluator with the glasses leans forward, spreading his hands, and smiles.†   (source)
  • "Bring Denise here, and we'll evaluate her situation," we said.†   (source)
  • I am out of my room before I can evaluate why I want to follow them.†   (source)
  • If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.†   (source)
  • When I opened them again, I could feel Savannah evaluating me.†   (source)
  • He evaluated the English language skills of all of the airline's flight crews.†   (source)
  • She evaluated my answer for a moment, then turned her attention to the bag.†   (source)
  • I also sensed that he would be fair in his evaluation and recommendation.†   (source)
  • This low evaluation of the experiment which provided the mu answer isn't justified.†   (source)
  • I know they're all worried about my performance at the evaluation.†   (source)
  • On my way home I evaluated my situation.†   (source)
  • Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that Edward was watching me, carefully evaluating my reaction.†   (source)
  • The evaluation is the last step, so I can get paired.†   (source)
  • It seemed small because your previous rigid evaluation which led to the stuckness made it small.†   (source)
  • She said nothing, but I could feel her evaluating me.†   (source)
  • Now I get it: The cows are dressed up as us, the people being evaluated.†   (source)
  • She evaluated my answer, as if wondering whether to believe me.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows I am having my evaluation today.†   (source)
  • The evaluator with the glasses leans forward.†   (source)
  • Senior year is almost over, and the evaluation is the final test I will take.†   (source)
  • Evaluator One, the woman, gestures to a bottle of water and a glass set up on the table.†   (source)
  • She said I should read it while I'm waiting for my evaluation.†   (source)
  • All of us will receive a new evaluation date, which means I get a second chance.†   (source)
  • She must be done with her evaluation already.†   (source)
  • You lied about even being inside the labs on Evaluation Day.†   (source)
  • "There was an …. incident at her evaluation," he says, his voice icy.†   (source)
  • I used the empty time to evaluate my situation.†   (source)
  • The people either accepted his own evaluation of his life, or were indifferent to it.†   (source)
  • She evaluated his answer, remembering that he'd said the same thing last night—when he'd won.†   (source)
  • Two men who knew her, and the same evaluation.†   (source)
  • The girl tests the situation in her mind, evaluating whether she wants to fight me or not.†   (source)
  • He often got the sense she was evaluating him, even in the course of normal conversations.†   (source)
  • He seemed pretty satisfied, but I could see in his eyes he was evaluating what he'd made.†   (source)
  • As a result, she found herself evaluating him in the way strangers often do.†   (source)
  • Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgment.†   (source)
  • Stephanie leaned back, evaluating her brother.†   (source)
  • Casanova thought about Alex Cross again, evaluating the detective's strengths and weaknesses.†   (source)
  • She was a technical analyst, evaluating data, filtering facts as the trees filtered the sunlight.†   (source)
  • There was a careful, measuring look in his eyes that she couldn't understand or evaluate.†   (source)
  • Dawson seemed to evaluate her choice of words before finally pushing off the workbench.†   (source)
  • Each of those factors, in turn, is evaluated on a 15-point scale.†   (source)
  • A mother's death causes a man to look back on and evaluate his own life.†   (source)
  • After a moment's hesitation, he turned it off and evaluated the sky.†   (source)
  • Yes, sir … I made a psychiatric evaluation of Mr., Hickock.†   (source)
  • After she calmed, I watched her go through a thoughtful evaluation.†   (source)
  • We don't need to evaluate this part of the Constitution.†   (source)
  • I don't know how I could have made it through the day without Brenda's latest evaluation."†   (source)
  • I evaluated the thirty-seven vampires that stayed.†   (source)
  • So I do need access to her to do a first-hand evaluation of her condition.†   (source)
  • The new version of himself had been resurrected yesterday as he endured the psychiatric evaluation.†   (source)
  • Now a relationship has forced you to begin evaluating yourself as a woman.†   (source)
  • Oportunidades provided for rigorous evaluation--something that is lacking in too many aid programs.†   (source)
  • He continues to stare into her face, cocking his head as though evaluating her.†   (source)
  • The hunt for Salander was in its sixth day and it was time for a major evaluation.†   (source)
  • A test he'd thought he was prepared to evaluate.†   (source)
  • If need be we'll bring in a doctor to evaluate the situation.†   (source)
  • "True, and I'll bet he was never asked to evaluate conflicting medical testimony.†   (source)
  • From a distance, Clayton continued to evaluate them.†   (source)
  • I don't have to evaluate whether every thought I have or choice I make fits into a narrow ideology.†   (source)
  • Is this the guy who did the evaluation of the new Kirov?†   (source)
  • Speed is important, and the first one is cake, a straightforward, "evaluate the limit" question.†   (source)
  • I could see her trying to read my face, evaluating the truthfulness of what I intended to say next.†   (source)
  • Fortunately for me, his ego didn't permit him to evaluate your man's abilities correctly.†   (source)
  • Both seemed to evaluate him in the same way that Deputy Hopper had.†   (source)
  • I'd arranged for a forensic psychiatrist to evaluate him.†   (source)
  • Which is not inconsistent with evaluation he expressed.†   (source)
  • As she answered, Paul found himself evaluating her.†   (source)
  • Director of Personnel Screening and Evaluation!†   (source)
  • She smiled, then leaned back a little, as if taking a moment to evaluate him.†   (source)
  • The cowboy seemed to evaluate her answer.†   (source)
  • And he could be covering his reaction, to skew the evaluation.†   (source)
  • Her alleged murderer confessed and was sentenced to life in prison after a psychiatric evaluation.†   (source)
  • But then, after evaluating the patient, you find out his ECG is normal.†   (source)
  • As I understand it, Ekström is going to commission one more thorough evaluation of Salander.†   (source)
  • She evaluated his answer, unsure what to make of it.†   (source)
  • Barclay, I want to see your evaluation of what our friend Ramius will do.†   (source)
  • "I take it the answer's no." Jake seemed to evaluate his answer.†   (source)
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