Sentences with phrase «blunt assessments»

And I want to help you, so I'm giving you fairly blunt assessments.

Those frustrations were visible at a recent State Board of Education meeting, as turnaround operators offered blunt assessments of the current state of affairs in IPS schools, while district officials unsuccessfully argued state officials» funding formula for the takeovers is inequitable.

Verheul's blunt assessment appeared to fly in the face of the more optimistic note U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer tried to sound earlier Wednesday during an interview with U.S. broadcaster CNBC.

The CIBC senior executive and former Harper government industry minister, regarded by many as a potential future leadership candidate, issued the blunt assessment in a speech in London, England, that contains some indirect criticism of his former colleagues.

For those who have the means but still have doubts, Kevin O'Leary, «Shark Tank» celebrity investor and founder of O'Leary Financial Group, known for his blunt opinions on television, provided a blunt assessment of why more people — celebrities or not — should give: «If you make money, you've got ta give some back, or you go to a bad place after you die.»

Bob Nault, who heads the House of Commons foreign affairs committee, will be taking his blunt assessment directly to Capitol Hill in the coming days.

Its blunt assessment of the causes of the crisis in which the then Labour government found itself was summed up in this phrase: «First among these [causes] has been the failure to establish effective control over financial policies».

Perez Williams offered a blunt assessment of Katko's performance as central New York's congressional representative.

The «meet the candidates» section with Ms Widdecombe is likely to be a highlight - the former Home Office minister is known for her straight talking and the programme it is modelled on is renowned for its blunt assessment of candidates.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) said Spitzer's blunt assessment of Cuomo as a politically driven Albany insider appeared «to be an attempt at payback» for Cuomo's role in the ex-governor's spectacular downfall.

Mr. Trump also foreshadowed themes that have surfaced on the campaign trail, giving a blunt assessment of what he felt was ailing New York State and the country: jobs going overseas, crushing taxes, restrictive gun laws.

The lead author of the study, Corinne Le Quéré of the University of East Anglia, offered her own blunt assessment.

Steven Koonin, the Department of Energy's (DOE's) undersecretary for science, had a blunt assessment today for efforts by himself and his boss, Energy Secretary Steve Chu, to have the $ 27 billion agency carry out research more efficiently: They're mostly not working.

And occasionally, de Boer has been chastised by diplomats from countries that pay his U.N. salary — the United States, Japan and Saudi Arabia, to name a few — for his blunt assessment of climate negotiations.

In tweets, Spergel offered a blunter assessment, writing that the «U.S. is abandoning its leadership in space astronomy,» and that the proposed cuts «imperil not only WFIRST but any future major mission.»

That's the blunt assessment of an internal Conservative government report, an unvarnished account of the plight of middle - income families that's in contrast to the rosier economic picture in this month's budget.

I won't waste my time with someone either incapable or unwilling of rational, reasoned arguments and blunt assessment of kind and quality of evidence available for analysis

Macfarlane gave a typically blunt assessment, but his speech highlighted just how the clean energy debate in the US between the Democrats and the Tea Party - inspired Republicans is infiltrating Australian politics, through the state governments and into the federal arena.

It was sent to Mr Cameron and offers a blunt assessment of how Coalition energy plans, in particular a series of green policies, will affect householders.

His doctors gave Lewis a blunt assessment that he needed to decide «whether he was going to live without alcohol or die by it, one or the other.»

As a father of three, I concur fully with Nas» blunt assessment of the state of modern child support by men in America.

WINNIPEG — Jonathan Marchessault gave a blunt assessment of the Vegas Golden Knights» pedestrian effort in Game 1 of the Western Conference final.

The most interesting part to me, though, is Yegge's blunt assessment of what he perceives to be Google's inability to understand platforms and how this could endanger the company in the long run.

This is the blunt assessment delivered by the Close the Gap Campaign 2017 Progress and Priorities Report, released on 16 March 2017 to mark National Close the Gap Day.

Not exact matches

VMware President and COO Carl Eschenbach was even more blunt in his assessment of Amazon, whose public cloud offering — Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)-- is being embraced by developers and even lines of business frustrated with provisioning IT services from corporate IT departments.

The National Retail Federation was more blunt in its assessment.

Is Wenger right to be blunt in his assessment?

Increasingly renowned for making blunt and honest assessments, Moyes has already been critical of summer signing Marko Arnautovic, told the senior players to take more responsibility, and underscored his intention to work his players harder in training after arriving as a replacement for the fired Slaven Bilic.

But since 2012, national planning rules have blunted this tool by enabling the widespread use and abuse of viability assessments.

And she vows to be blunt in her assessment of the issues.

In the Bronx, Michael Blake, Assemblyman - elect of in the 79th District, was blunt in offering his assessment of the grand jury decision.

During a «state of the city» address last Wednesday, Walsh was blunt in his assessment of Syracuse's fiscal state.

Politicians in and outside the mayor's race have been blunt in their assessment of Weiner's fitness to run city government.

Her blunt, honest assessment and advices on online dating might disillusion some men.

In addition, assessments are very blunt instruments in teasing out effectiveness, and are notoriously bad at gauging less empirically - oriented skills, such as those used for critical thinking.

Demanding accountability for results and measuring achievement with the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), a criterion - referenced assessment — actually, a rather blunt instrument — has spurred significant improvement in student achievement.

When asked about the problems associated with standardized testing — cheating, overtesting, blunt measures of student achievement — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan often points to a duo of «next - generation assessments» funded by federal money.

A fairly blunt instrument for assessment, levels could not take account of regional issues or the individual differences between schools.

Assessments and interventions are often blunt instruments that only add to the substantial burden already carried by Independent School Districts.

When asked where he stood on his state's initiative to hold back third graders, educational psychologist David Berliner — the Regents Professor of Education at Arizona State University — was blunt in his assessment.

She's blunt in her assessment of the rapid changes in the industry and that publishers never know what will be a hit or not.

Although the work lives in the landscape - full - of - eccentric - beings mode of painting, Gaiman — whose own latest master - stroke is the towering plethora of coverage he's able to bring to The Ocean at the End of the Lane — is refreshingly blunt in his assessment near the end of the article:

In cases where physical examination does not allow for a good assessment of liver size (patient is tense or obese, for example), imaging through x-rays and ultrasound will reveal a large, blunted liver.

I feel would really help if politicans and scientists gave a more blunt, forceful and urgent assessment of the risks, but without stepping over into hysteria about the earth becoming like venus.

This is a blunt but fair assessment.

The suggestion of this article is that the «pretty good chance of success» test ought to stand alone; moreover, if the blunt instrument of percentage assessment is to be used, it ought to be recognised that «a pretty good chance» is capable of applying to any case where the claimant shows a greater than (say) 40 — 45 % chance of success.

But the downside of simple assessments is often their blunt nature.

Tim Chiala, a co-owner of George Chiala Farms in the Santa Clara Valley, was blunt in his assessment of the drought:

However, folks like me who are outspokenly blunt with their assessments of what might ail an industry are not usually welcomed into large bureaucratic organizations that operate on a relatively slow moving schedule regarding changes of strategy and modus operandi (But kudos to RECO for changing its strategy and upping the game in the first place).