Sentences with phrase «gives sober assessment»

• Government pay frozen for five years • PM orders cabinet to keep differences private • Osborne gives sober assessment of economy

Last week's New Climate Economy report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints, climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people's lives.

Given this sobering assessment, what can be done in the future to improve student achievement?

Not exact matches

I commit to stopping if — in my most honest assessment — I don't believe that she is sober enough to give full consent.

Niebuhr felt that no reconstruction could take place until a sober assessment of power had been given.

J. Michael Wallace of the University of Washington, someone whose views I've tracked closely for decades, had this sobering assessment (I've asked him to clarify what he means by «irreversible» given various papers (e.g., 1, 2, 3) cutting against that idea and will add an update when it comes):