balanced assessment

collocation in English

meaningsofbalancedandassessment

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balanced
adjective
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/ˈbæl.ənst/us
/ˈbæl.ənst/
considering all sides or ...
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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 ofbalancedandassessmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Again, the fear of crime, rather than anybalancedassessmentof actual crime, was the key.
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For decades, its victims' historical revenge prevented the later analysis from recognizing any of its achievements, but recent approaches have tended to adopt a morebalancedassessment.
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What is needed is abalancedassessmentof the costs and benefits, a visualization of explicit choices, and political mechanisms to build and implement policy with a broad support.
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A fair andbalancedassessmentis difficult.
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Zaccaria's discerning andbalancedassessmentof the mercurial relationship between these two great adventurers sheds light on the characters and behaviour of both of them.
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This is a matter which should be decided against the background of a full andbalancedassessmentof council housing need.
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It is too early to make abalancedassessmentof the working of the new provisions.
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It is too early for abalancedassessment.
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I hope that the debate has contributed to a morebalancedassessmentof the contribution of the multinational companies than exists in many quarters today.
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That is why it is important for us to study the scheme properly and reach a properlybalancedassessmentthat it accords with the rules.
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The following brief synopsis might appear bland; but abalancedassessmentof such an emotive topic would benefit little from prejudice and rhetoric.
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We need to make abalancedassessmentand calculate both the potential negative impact on the environment and the beneficial impacts.
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It is a team with the right expertise and the right background to provide a fair andbalancedassessmentof the way ahead.
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There needs to be a better, morebalancedassessmentof what went on.
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In health and safety issues, regulations and enforcement must reflect abalancedassessmentof risk.
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Abalancedassessmentcannot be made by concentrating on only a part of it.
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If so, how will it arrive at abalancedassessmentof the cost-effectiveness of such treatments?
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That appears to me to be a fair andbalancedassessmentof the privatisation proposals.
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There must, therefore, be a proper andbalancedassessmentof local housing situations before decisions are made.
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