Appraising

Owners must be honest in appraising their pets, but many can't or won't acknowledge the realities of personality characteristics or behaviors that would make the animals an annoyance or distraction at work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What I would say about Northern Rock ... is that most of the staff that worked ... on the lending side, all the evidence shows, did an excellent job in appraising the loans that they were making, and that they monitored very carefully and did not lend money to people who should not be borrowing from them. ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)

Has anyone ever done a serious study on the economic impact of drug addiction, alcoholism, prostitution, crime, divorce, pollution, economic disparity, and psychological illness caused by a capitalist society in appraising its efficiency? ❋ Unknown (2006)

There is no need to waste time in appraising what has to be done and what are going to be the tremendous tasks of the Province and the municipalities. ❋ Unknown (1957)

There are three factors which must not be overlooked in appraising the Italian situation: First, there were 5,000,000 Communist votes in the election, nearly one-third of the total. ❋ Unknown (1948)

This fact should be given especial consideration in appraising the significance of the work of Erlanger and Gasser. ❋ Unknown (1945)

This may unconsciously handicap me in appraising the project in terms of the general interest of Canada. ❋ Unknown (1940)

Mrs. Miniver's children are a touch angelic (there are no tantrums) but she is perceptive in appraising them -- especially Vin's feelings as he goes back to school -- and she does capture the way in which children fill their parents 'lives with rituals. ❋ Unknown (1939)

Our own people may safely be counted upon to exercise a fair degree of discrimination in appraising the weight, reliability and animus of the investigation proceedings by the several committees which have been and are holding hearings, and to reach a roughly correct estimate as to how much there is of party purpose and political or personal prejudice, how much of plain inefficiency, how much of inherent difficulty to administer certain laws, and how much of real culpability. ❋ Unknown (1924)

He pries open the crate, then pulls a bottle from the straw lining and lifts it to the light, running his hand over the label and appraising it with a knowing eye. ❋ Pam Jenoff (2010)

Sunday I was 'appraising' a friend's books, that's a generous term, I was helping her 'get rid' of some books. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Colonel Morgan tore himself loose of Pity's grip, cast her the kind of appraising glance that pretended it was possible to understand her, then rushed to Palminetti's side. ❋ Castro, Adam Troy (2001)

"So that's the guy," Danny said, running an appraising eye over his proposed antagonist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The other looked him over with an appraising, incredulous eye. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"They are, they almost always are," Miss West answered, and her eyes roved over them in the same appraising, cattle-buyer's fashion I had marked in Mr. Pike. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But when to his natural excellences were added the romance that linked with his name and the enormous wealth that was his, practically every free woman he encountered measured him with an appraising and delighted eye, to say nothing of more than one woman who was not free. ❋ Unknown (2010)