realistic appraisal

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realistic
adjective
uk
/ˌrɪəˈlɪs.tɪk/us
/ˌriː.əˈlɪs.tɪk/
accepting things as they are in fact and not making decisions based on unlikely hopes for ...
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appraisal
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈpreɪ.zəl/us
/əˈpreɪ.zəl/
the act of examining someone or something in order to judge their qualities, success, ...
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In this study, reflection of arealisticappraisalof patients' complex problems back to referring agencies generated a degree of external support.
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This is a potentially important finding since it supports the idea that subjective memory complaints may represent arealisticappraisalof cognitive decline.
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It is not uncommon for family members to substitute false hopes of cure for arealisticappraisalof the patient's prospects for recovery of consciousness.
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Counselling women with affected fetuses must include arealisticappraisalof the risk of death in the immediate neonatal period, as well as during infancy.
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Integrated multidisciplinary assessment by the team generated arealisticappraisalof the situation.
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Lecky argued that religious liberties, as defined by the law, must be shaped by therealisticappraisalof local sensibilities.
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It believes that the move is, instead, a response to difficult workforce issues and that some of the options go beyond 'arealisticappraisal' of pharmacists' skills and abilities.
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Now, particularly in the light of what has been achieved in other countries, we should have arealisticappraisal.
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The distribution will need to be affected by the site options, and by arealisticappraisalof the way forward.
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I think he gave us arealisticappraisal—certainly not one that was too optimistic.
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It does not seem to make anyrealisticappraisalat all of the difficulties with which we are faced.
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It seems that its leaders are motivated by a brutallyrealisticappraisalof their own situation.
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We must instead see that the time available is used to make an urgent and much morerealisticappraisalof the alternatives.
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That is a morerealisticappraisalof the public view of life sentences.
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What we need now is arealisticappraisalof the state of research and development on nuclear propulsion for shipping in this country.
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On the contrary, it is a measure which anyrealisticappraisalof transport economics thoroughly justifies.
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The fears it holds are by no means a fantasy; possibly they are a quiterealisticappraisalof the future.
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In paragraph 209, he tells us that "information was not used to form arealisticappraisalof the society's financial position".
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It is in fact arealisticappraisalof the likely level of resources which will be available for trunk roads.
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