Famous Quotes & Sayings

A well-trained police officer is trained to assess these situations very quickly. The standard is: What would an objective, reasonable police officer do in this circumstance?

Henrik Ibsen

A woman cannot be herself in modern society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess female conduct from a male standpoint.

People should use Earth Day to do an energy assessment of their home. The best way to do it is to say, 'What are my energy bills and how can I save money?' That's a good way to save the environment.

The short term will be checking with the funding partners and the project partners to assess the status of their thinking and their interest in seeking other alternatives. We will have to have those discussions shortly and assess where we stand. It's a priority for that building to be redeveloped and ideally contributing to the tax rolls.

A frail elder without the family caregiver won't make it, but if you don't have a sense of who that family caregiver is you don't know what is needed. Assessment is an intelligent step.

Some parents might say 'don't do it' without explaining why. But if you explain, children can make an assessment of whether or not it's a sensible thing to do.

Schneider is in Meridian, Miss., doing damage assessment and client casework. He is working with 16 others in a team,

The scan revealed cartilage damage which will certainly keep him out of Wednesday's game. He has returned to (his club) Chelsea for further assessment and treatment.

The sanctions imposed by the US government on the two Indian firms relate to transfer of some chemicals to Iran. Our preliminary assessment is that the transfer of such chemicals is not in violation of our regulations or our international obligations.

The role of a speech-language pathologist is to work with children and adults who display the full range of human communication disorders. Our job is to assess and treat speech, language and swallowing disorders in individuals from infancy through geriatrics.

E. P. Thompson

The virus is in the environment somewhere and the team needs to identify its source, how widespread it is and assess how well-prepared the region or provinces might be to respond to an outbreak.

The right way to stop improper industrial distribution is to ensure environmental impact assessment for newly launched projects and promote it in policy-making.

This is an important game for us as we want to put into practice what we have been learning during training. After an extended period of training, the team will have to assess how far it has developed.

This is an unprecedented event in terms of devastation and scale. It's not like a spill on a river or a beach; you have small channels, canals, towns, levees. Everything here is complicated . . . and it's not a simple environment to assess damage in.

This is another avenue to assess those kids we don't have a lot of data on.

The way that the current education system is set up, the state requires students to take physical education and pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System to graduate from high school. It would be quite a challenge to require a program like this.

This program allows lenders to build a risk preparedness model to respond to future disasters. In addition, the graphical representation allows managers to quickly assess and communicate the risk to their business in the event of a disaster.

Eve Arnold

It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about.

We have a site assessment process and we certainly don't put children at risk.

We use the Hollywood Stock Exchange to assess what market expectations are for a film.

Pat Roberts

Curveball really provided 98 percent of the assessment as to whether or not the Iraqis had a biological weapon,

Currently we're working on a damage assessment before they knock the building down, and we're preparing a draft budget for replacement of the building.

Early situational awareness was poor, a problem that should have been corrected following identical damage assessment challenges during Hurricane Andrew,

Even getting divers out there to assess pipelines is a big issue due to a lack of helicopters, boats and power. It's in quite a disarray.

Ian Stewart

We like to think of this as a smart assessment of the European economy. But in reality it is a bet - one that could fail.

We do not need to visit the stadium to assess the security measures. Last time we inspected the ground and its surroundings and I hope the security will remain the same for the upcoming Indian cricket team's tour to Peshawar.

Even the friendly matches played do not give a fair assessment on tactics but maybe help on fitness levels.

While we continue to assess the damage from Katrina, the threat to production of new storms is attracting everybody's attention and could drive prices right back up.

As soon as the storm is over, we'll go back out, assess and hope this is it for the year.

Mohamed ElBaradei

a state of play of where we are, what we have achieved, what is left for us to do and an assessment of the degree of cooperation we are receiving from Iraq.

Rita Mae Brown

I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.

We have engaged an investment banking firm to help us assess strategic options for Turner South and a significant programming contributor to that network, the Atlanta Braves franchise, which may lead to the sale of one or both.

What is probably happening is they are trying to seek disgorgement of profits and assess a civil penalty she deems unreasonable.