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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It’s a forward pass, a blow that lands, because it’s an honest assessment of the situation.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Please spread the word, and tell friends and family members that an honest assessment of the records of the two presidential tickets leads to the inescapable conclusion that Obama – Biden is the choice for humane – minded voters.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
However, the more I struggled to come up with an honest assessment of Jonathan and where he’s at right now in his life, I had to concede to the fact that another, similar but still very different question was actually weighing more heavily upon my mind.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I focus on Leach’s speech, not because it was riveting – it definitely was not that – but because his perspective represents an honest assessment from a practical politician who is no longer in the game.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
CA: I honestly don’t know enough about college and the whole college experience to make an honest assessment, so I’d rather keep my comments limited to what I know best.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Whether or not the content of a writer’s work is an honest assessment of their subject, when this agreement is broken, the writer risks breaking down the most important thing this agreement is supposed to facilitate: trust.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Show you what the food looks like, give my honest assessment on how it tastes, the calorie values of each box, the entire 9 yards.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
by Noel Sheppard Much as Bush – hating media members conveniently ignore historical events that led to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, their current finger – pointing at the White House, John McCain, and all Republican politicians for the collapse of the financial services industry lacks any honest assessment of decades – old legislation that laid the groundwork for today’s problems.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
If you’re like me, I urge you to give yourself an honest assessment to determine the amount of damage being done to yourself and those around you.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Being with her I find myself laughing a lot, chuckling over her funny sayings and her honest assessment of things.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And in the absence of an honest assessment from the Democratic front – runner, we’ll do it ourselves.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Howard Fuller, patron saint of the voucher program, has wryly acknowledged, “I think that any honest assessment would have to say that there hasn’t been the deep, wholesale improvement in MPS [Milwaukee Public Schools] that we would have thought.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
We talk about the content of the programme and try to give an honest assessment of what…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
An audio recording made at Kingston University revealed that staff were instructing students how to respond to the survey and using it as a way of promoting a positive image rather than an honest assessment.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Crabb’s book is an honest assessment of how man has attempted to manipulate and maneuver God to avoid trusting Him.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
But what comes to mind at the moment is this: Why is it that if I hire a non – Christian to do some type of work for me (I. e., do home repairs), in most cases I will get (1) a better deal, (2) a more honest assessment of the problem, (3) much more competent work, and (4) a better guarantee than if I were to hire a Christian to do the exact same thing?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Please spread the word, and tell friends and family members that an honest assessment of the records of the two presidential tickets leads to the inescapable conclusion that Obama – Biden is the choice for humane – minded voters.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I felt the psych term’ ’ highly functioning in mainstream despite the presence of illness’ ’ was a more honest and more realistic assessment than’ recovered ’. It was Liz’s vlog that moved me to start my own channel.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
So says Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan, two highly placed republican operatives who got caught on an open mike yesterday on MSNBC with Chuck Todd giving their honest assessment of the Palin choice and the state of the McCain candidacy.
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(. .)))
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