optimistic assessment

collocation in English

meaningsofoptimisticandassessment

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optimistic
adjective
uk
/ˌɒp.tɪˈmɪs.tɪk/us
/ˌɑːp.təˈmɪs.tɪk/
hoping or believing that good things will happen in ...
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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 ofoptimisticandassessmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Yet when we investigate other features of the declarations as a uniform system for reporting the exploitation of private forests, thatoptimisticassessmentrequires revision.
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Whether her relativelyoptimisticassessmentof the salience of the business case and the government's light-touch approach is justified remains to be seen.
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Consequently, the discomfort created by life events was not reduced by anoptimisticassessmentof their state.
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Despite ouroptimisticassessmentof the methods we employed, some important caveats are suggested by our data.
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As with the state'soptimisticassessmentof rural associations in the cocoa and coffee belt, this view of rural cooperatives in the north has to be treated with caution.
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It makes a casuallyoptimisticassessmentof the euro and is unbalanced in the way that it sings the praises of the internal market.
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But it is difficult to know exactly where wilful deceit begins andoptimisticassessmentends.
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Would it be fair to say that, even on the mostoptimisticassessment, such changes are unlikely to be implemented in practice before 1974?
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That is not anoptimisticassessmentof the winning of the battle.
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They should co-operate generally in a far moreoptimisticassessmentof life, free from the basic evils of inequality.
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I believe that that is a highlyoptimisticassessment.
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I believe that that was anoptimisticassessment.
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That is 10 years after the strategic defence review, and even that may turn out to be anoptimisticassessment.
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Even if we take the mostoptimisticassessmentof the follow-up to the summit conference, it cannot have much effect until 1979, and even then it is pretty dismal.
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We must not reproduce thatoptimisticassessment.
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But that is anoptimisticassessment.
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Development, let alone production, could not begin, on the mostoptimisticassessment, for very many years yet.
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That is anoptimisticassessment.
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