"We've never fully resolved whether we think of sentencing as mostly a backward-looking assessment of what a person deserves or a forward-looking assessment of what society needs," said Douglas A. Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University who highlighted Mr. McCullough's case on his blog, Sentencing Law and Policy.
While based on historical data, it is intended as a forward-looking assessment.
In the end, rating agencies need to provide an honest and forward-looking assessment, and not be bound by the present system of relative ratings and undue concerns on reactions to their changes.
Mr. Kauffman's hopeful, forward-looking assessment of Mr. Brando's gift came at a time when that actor's star, and certainly his box-office luster, was in eclipse.
The relevance and importance of the forward-looking assessment of the normative significance of past wrongs has been stressed by, for example, Lyons (1977); Waldron (1992b); Ackerman (1992), 72 73; Ackerman (1997).
–Capital Assistance Program: Treasury has also launched a new capital program, including a forward-looking capital assessment undertaken by bank supervisors to ensure that banks have the capital they need in the event of a worse-than-expected recession.
Such forward-looking assessments would allow for better resource management and fund initial HSS and brain drain mitigation programs at the global, national, and local level.
This manuscript provides a forward looking assessment of the promise of nanomedicine as it pertains to individualized medicine and establishes a technology "snapshot" of the current state of nano-based products over a vast array of clinical indications and range of patient specificity.
To accomplish this, our Finance Ministers should, with the assistance of the IMF: * Develop a forward looking assessment of G-20 economic developments to help analyze whether patterns of demand and supply, credit, debt and reserves growth are supportive of strong, sustainable and balanced growth.
Purpose/Objective: The purpose of the evaluation is to provide a forward looking assessment based on the lessons learned from the final or sustainability phase (2003 200909) of the community schools project.
However, in contrast to satisfaction, which is an assessment of past events, trust is a forward-looking evaluation of an on-going relationship.
