honest assessment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhonestandassessment
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honest
adjective
uk/ˈɒn.ɪst/us/ˈɑː.nɪst/
telling the truth or able to be trusted and not likely to steal, cheat, ...
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assessment
noun[C or U]
uk/əˈses.mənt/us/əˈses.mənt/
the act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality, or importance of something, or the judgment or decision that ...
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(Definition ofhonestandassessmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thehonestassessmentis that we shall succeed only by reducing inflation and by making industry more competitive.
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Anhonestassessmentwould certainly reveal that these results have overall been welcomed.
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He refused to put forward what he knew to be anhonestassessmentof the evidence.
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It is entitled to anhonestassessmentof how much has beeen achieved.
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On anyhonestassessmentof the administrative cost, the churning of those funds may prove not to cost any more, but possibly less.
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Is not that statement anhonestassessmentof the differences between the two systems?
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The need for transparency must surely not override the need forhonestassessmentand record and the protection of the national interest.
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This is not a figure plucked out of the air: it is an attempt to provide anhonestassessmentof what our rhetoric actually means.
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That is anhonestassessmentof the situation.
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Clear objectives will be set and there will be anhonestassessmenteach year of progress against those objectives.
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But is it not obvious on anyhonestassessmentthat confidence in the private sector is still lamentably low?
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That is anhonestassessmentand nobody can dispute that.
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The actions that we take must be based four square on anhonestassessmentof the latest science.
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Many of its members who make money from industrial tribunals will be happy with those remarks, which should be welcomed as anhonestassessment.
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They ought to make anhonestassessment.
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The secret ballot system was put in place to promote anhonestassessmentof the work and to avoid politics, making the awards as impartial as possible.
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Scientists must replace ecological certainty with honest assessments of uncertainty, and avoid presenting "facts" that have weak empirical bases, are subject to multiple interpretations, or have been contradicted outright.
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That means not only making bold and well-considered decisions about new kit but making honest assessments regarding old kit.
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Nevertheless, friendship involves honest assessments and a willingness to point out the dangers.
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