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  • The Pew Economic Mobility Project studied how Americans evaluated their chances at economic betterment, and what they found was shocking.   (source)
    evaluated = 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)
  • 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
  • I did monthly psych evaluations on each member of the crew.   (source)
    evaluations = assessments (judgments)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And of course she didn't understand—she had gotten as far as (mistakenly) evaluating me as a human being who might be worthy of respect.†   (source)
    evaluating = thinking carefully and making a judgment about
  • 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)
  • Calipers are used to evaluate his feet, the length of his fingers, and the distance between his eyes and his navel.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In my previous job, I was in the dark about where I stood until, like, quarterly evaluations.†   (source)
  • That's why I took a chance that you'd see me-I want you to evaluate my client.'†   (source)
  • When she was finished she stepped back and evaluated herself.†   (source)
  • Each week he evaluates our progress and makes a note on the wall.†   (source)
  • The teachers think only of grades when evaluating a student.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • On the morning of my evaluation it is the smell that wakes me up.†   (source)
  • He walked from one booth to another, evaluating the goods with a buyer's eye, despite his meager supply of coins.†   (source)
  • Reichs University paid for a team of evaluators to sort the offers and see if anything might benefit Rachel.†   (source)
  • She evaluated and reflected over what she read.†   (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)
  • The fair's Committee on Grounds and Buildings had asked Burnham, quietly, to evaluate a number of locations in the city.†   (source)
  • The chiropractor evaluated me and found how my gunshot wound had led me to throw my body out of balance.†   (source)
  • She's in the Fields of Asphodel, standing before the judges right now, being evaluated.†   (source)
  • I did get stuck with one admin job that had nothing to do with mission planning: evaluating the E5s.†   (source)
  • They longed for bygone eras, such as the Middle Ages, which now became enthusiastically reappraised after the Enlightenment's negative evaluation.†   (source)
  • After multiple psychiatric evaluations and treatments, Joe was discharged for an inability to adjust emotionally to military life.†   (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)
  • She smiled, amused at her own evaluation.†   (source)
  • Baseball had hundreds of scouts—guys who spent 365 days a year traveling the country to evaluate teenagers.†   (source)
  • The captain studied the chart as his navigator gave the necessary orders, evaluating the tactical situation.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • After we evaluated Denise, controversy broke out here at Hopkins over whether to do a hemispherectomy.†   (source)
  • ; following my evaluation which extended over three hours, I referred her to McLean Hospital for admission.†   (source)
  • But her background was such that the district court ordered a psychiatric evaluation.†   (source)
  • As you can probably guess, my view leads to constantly evaluating my performance and the performances of those I count on.†   (source)
  • At the meat counter, she evaluated the options.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were raisins, beady and dark, and they twitched their way over me in almost predatory evaluation.†   (source)
  • Invoices ...employee evaluations ...Dan gave everything a passing glance, but he didn't stop on anything until he came to a slip of folded paper.†   (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.†   (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)
  • Another executive, a self-described "sensory evaluation specialist," emphasized the importance of pleasant smells.†   (source)
  • In the evaluation the master chief had stated that Adam was his "FIRST CHOICE for the toughest jobs."†   (source)
  • But that is far too bleak an evaluation.†   (source)
  • He wants her to come twice a week for some evaluations.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It is his final evaluation for each subject: evaluations that turned out better than he-and perhaps even Professor Trilling-had figured.†   (source)
  • Deets had ridden on, to evaluate the trail.†   (source)
  • He was letting them look him over, and guardedly evaluating them in return.†   (source)
  • I lean over and evaluate Rosie's toenails, running my hands along the underside of her foot.†   (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)
  • She was looking at me, openly evaluating.†   (source)
  • At home I reviewed the failure and tried to evaluate my new position.†   (source)
  • Evaluation.†   (source)
  • He sat down behind his desk again and resolved to embark upon a mature and systematic evaluation of the entire military situation.†   (source)
  • We ask you to evaluate your mass media carefully.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I hesitated, giving him an evaluating stare.†   (source)
  • There, a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation found him to be withdrawn and socially maladjusted.†   (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)
  • Yet all of his reactors are at work—summing up, evaluating, rejecting.†   (source)
  • If she could gather enough of them, she could issue a warrant for a psychiatric evaluation.†   (source)
  • Echo, your social worker extended your therapy until graduation because of your teacher evaluations.†   (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)
  • It's differences in how people evaluate speakers of languages.†   (source)
  • At the end of the quarter the students were asked to write an essay evaluating the system.†   (source)
  • The conscience of a race is the gift of its individuals who see, evaluate, record ....We create the race by creating ourselves and then to our great astonishment we will have created something far more important: We will have created a culture.†   (source)
  • She was a technical analyst, evaluating data, filtering facts as the trees filtered the sunlight.†   (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)
  • One of the first rules of air reconnaissance was "Ignore the scenery"; analysis and evaluation were not the job of the pilot.†   (source)
  • Every six months, prisoners were called before the prison board to have their classifications evaluated.†   (source)
  • He had to pass this debriefing and psych evaluation, and shaking hands not withstanding, he would demonstrate that he was just fine.†   (source)
  • "Mannie," said Wyoh, "that's a most self-centered evaluation."†   (source)
  • He liked evaluating TB tests.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Janice and Amos are isolated for observation and evaluation.†   (source)
  • I've taught courses in mental evaluation at the Medical College in Richmond, and at the University of Virginia.†   (source)
  • This gave him time to evaluate different people's grass and bushes and cars, and to ponder.†   (source)
  • First of all, I need to know why you won't submit to a psychological evaluation.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I know you will objectively evaluate these observations.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Evaluation really.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • What's the Biblical evaluation of sex: BRADY It is considered "Original Sin.†   (source)
  • "I will have both situations evaluated," Karellen replied.†   (source)
  • She was evaluating him, and all the chances, all the odds.†   (source)
  • I never created a test to evaluate the trip, nor did the thought ever occur to me.†   (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)
  • He seemed pretty satisfied, but I could see in his eyes he was evaluating what he'd made.†   (source)
  • Am I really evaluating how best to deceive my friend?†   (source)
  • There was a careful, measuring look in his eyes that she couldn't understand or evaluate.†   (source)
  • In my case, that would have meant being evaluated in the intelligence area.†   (source)
  • Each of those factors, in turn, is evaluated on a 15-point scale.†   (source)
  • I am out of my room before I can evaluate why I want to follow them.†   (source)
  • After a moment's hesitation, he turned it off and evaluated the sky.†   (source)
  • Knowing his story now, I could guess how this evaluation must disturb him.†   (source)
  • "Bring Denise here, and we'll evaluate her situation," we said.†   (source)
  • You lied about even being inside the labs on Evaluation Day.†   (source)
  • Is this the guy who did the evaluation of the new Kirov?†   (source)
  • The instructors evaluated us and ranked everything we did, including our runs and swims.†   (source)
  • I evaluated the thirty-seven vampires that stayed.†   (source)
  • On my way home I evaluated my situation.†   (source)
  • He evaluated the English language skills of all of the airline's flight crews.†   (source)
  • When I opened them again, I could feel Savannah evaluating me.†   (source)
  • She evaluated my answer, as if wondering whether to believe me.†   (source)
  • But then, after evaluating the patient, you find out his ECG is normal.†   (source)
  • Barclay, I want to see your evaluation of what our friend Ramius will do.†   (source)
  • I was taken to see an educational consultant that autumn and the woman did an evaluation.†   (source)
  • "You bring her for us to evaluate," I said.†   (source)
  • Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that Edward was watching me, carefully evaluating my reaction.†   (source)
  • She must be done with her evaluation already.†   (source)
  • The evaluator with the glasses leans forward, spreading his hands, and smiles.†   (source)
  • I also sensed that he would be fair in his evaluation and recommendation.†   (source)
  • CONTACT EVALUATED AS REDFLEET SSBN GROSS SIZE, ENGINE CHARACTERISTICS INDICATIVE TYPHOON CLASS.†   (source)
  • She said nothing, but I could feel her evaluating me.†   (source)
  • She evaluated my answer for a moment, then turned her attention to the bag.†   (source)
  • The evaluation is the last step, so I can get paired.†   (source)
  • 'ANOMALOUS SIGNAL EVALUATED AS MAGMA DISPLACEMENT.'†   (source)
  • I know they're all worried about my performance at the evaluation.†   (source)
  • I had a piece of the evaluation of the new Kirov.†   (source)
  • She said I should read it while I'm waiting for my evaluation.†   (source)
  • Loomis looked around quickly as though evaluating the job the decorator had done.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows I am having my evaluation today.†   (source)
  • All of us will receive a new evaluation date, which means I get a second chance.†   (source)
  • Now I get it: The cows are dressed up as us, the people being evaluated.†   (source)
  • Evaluator One, the woman, gestures to a bottle of water and a glass set up on the table.†   (source)
  • Senior year is almost over, and the evaluation is the final test I will take.†   (source)
  • The evaluator with the glasses leans forward.†   (source)
  • "There was an ...incident at her evaluation," he says, his voice icy.†   (source)
  • Casanova thought about Alex Cross again, evaluating the detective's strengths and weaknesses.†   (source)
  • She could sense their subtle gazes on her, examining her, evaluating.†   (source)
  • The people either accepted his own evaluation of his life, or were indifferent to it.†   (source)
  • I used the empty time to evaluate my situation.†   (source)
  • He often got the sense she was evaluating him, even in the course of normal conversations.†   (source)
  • Two men who knew her, and the same evaluation.†   (source)
  • As a result, she found herself evaluating him in the way strangers often do.†   (source)
  • Stephanie leaned back, evaluating her brother.†   (source)
  • She evaluated his answer, remembering that he'd said the same thing last night—when he'd won.†   (source)
  • The girl tests the situation in her mind, evaluating whether she wants to fight me or not.†   (source)
  • Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgment.†   (source)
  • Oportunidades provided for rigorous evaluation—something that is lacking in too many aid programs.†   (source)
  • True, and I'll bet he was never asked to evaluate conflicting medical testimony.†   (source)
  • Speed is important, and the first one is cake, a straightforward, "evaluate the limit" question.†   (source)
  • So I do need access to her to do a first-hand evaluation of her condition.†   (source)
  • I don't have to evaluate whether every thought I have or choice I make fits into a narrow ideology.†   (source)
  • Yes, sir ...I made a psychiatric evaluation of Mr., Hickock.†   (source)
  • I don't know how I could have made it through the day without Brenda's latest evaluation.†   (source)
  • After she calmed, I watched her go through a thoughtful evaluation.†   (source)
  • I'd arranged for a forensic psychiatrist to evaluate him.†   (source)
  • Now a relationship has forced you to begin evaluating yourself as a woman.†   (source)
  • He continues to stare into her face, cocking his head as though evaluating her.†   (source)
  • A mother's death causes a man to look back on and evaluate his own life.†   (source)
  • The hunt for Salander was in its sixth day and it was time for a major evaluation.†   (source)
  • Which is not inconsistent with evaluation he expressed.†   (source)
  • A test he'd thought he was prepared to evaluate.†   (source)
  • Fortunately for me, his ego didn't permit him to evaluate your man's abilities correctly.†   (source)
  • It seemed small because your previous rigid evaluation which led to the stuckness made it small.†   (source)
  • Dawson seemed to evaluate her choice of words before finally pushing off the workbench.†   (source)
  • I could see her trying to read my face, evaluating the truthfulness of what I intended to say next.†   (source)
  • If need be we'll bring in a doctor to evaluate the situation.†   (source)
  • Both seemed to evaluate him in the same way that Deputy Hopper had.†   (source)
  • We don't need to evaluate this part of the Constitution.†   (source)
  • From a distance, Clayton continued to evaluate them.†   (source)
  • As she answered, Paul found himself evaluating her.†   (source)
  • The new version of himself had been resurrected yesterday as he endured the psychiatric 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)
  • Director of Personnel Screening and Evaluation!†   (source)
  • And he could be covering his reaction, to skew the evaluation.†   (source)
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