Sentence examples for a somber assessment from inspiring English sources

The hearings on Thursday came on the same day that the federal agency charged with overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac provided a somber assessment of those giants' health.

Yesterday, the president-elect stood in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, dedicated to the slain president who brought the United States intact through the Civil War and abolished slavery, and gave a somber assessment of the perils ahead despite the exuberant mood among the crowd.

As my colleague Alan Cowell wrote for Rendezvous this week, the Right Rev. Welby used an address on Monday to offer a somber assessment of the country's economic woes and to warn that it would take "something very, very major" to shed them.

In an address Monday night, the Right Rev. Justin Welby, the newly appointed archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual head of the world's 80 million Anglicans, offered a somber assessment of the country's economic woes following the banking crisis and said it would take "something very, very major" to shed them.

Another friend has a more somber assessment: "If we're lucky, five years".

Mrs. Merkel offered her somber assessment of the currency's plight in a speech to the Bundestag lower house of Parliament on Wednesday shortly after the surprise announcement from Christian Lindner, 32, the secretary of the divided, pro-business Free Democrats that he was quitting.

General Pace added his voice to General Abizaid's somber assessment of the increasing sectarian violence, in an exchange with Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona.

A. -- Pretty somber assessment today, Don.

And they often include a pretty upbeat assessment of how things are going with the exception of A. -- I didn't think Q. pretty somber assessment this evening.

Mr. Barak's somber assessment did not square at all with the uncharacteristically upbeat one offered by a senior Palestinian negotiator this afternoon.

That was the somber assessment delivered Thursday by the federal agency charged with overseeing the government-controlled Fannie and Freddie, which have lost a combined $165 billion since July 2007 as their bets on the housing market went bad.