Sentence examples for appraise works from inspiring English sources

Christie's will only appraise works of art that are clearly owned by the city, and that are not bound by donor restrictions that might rule out a possible sale, the newspaper said, citing Mr. Orr's spokesman Bill Nowling.

Among other tolls the city now unhappily finds itself bearing: $200,000 (plus as much as $50,000 in expenses) to Christie's, the auction house, to appraise works at the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of the proceedings, despite strenuous objections of Detroit leaders at the very thought that the art may be at risk.

The I.R.S. has no uniform standard for appraising works of art or other collectibles, making those valuations a time-honored way to cheat on taxes with little risk of detection.

Christie's auction house was hired to appraise selected works that were purchased by the city, and estimated they would fetch between $452 and $866 million, a drop in the bucket when one considers Detroit's $18 billion debt.

An editor's job, Mr. Galassi said, is to appraise the work as a whole.

Trial judges, who oversee trials and are in the best position to appraise the work of juries, generally praised the change.

He'd always been drawn to the radical, playful sides of German thinkers, but others tended to appraise their work with a heavy sobriety close to worship.

In July 1981 a summit meeting was held in Salisbury to appraise the work so far accomplished at the ministerial level of SADCC.

An interested researcher wrote in '46 to M. J. Spiegel, Jr. president of the firm, if he would be possible for him to see and appraise the work of Dr. Marseille.

In revisiting Christopher Lasch's "Culture of Narcissism" ("The Book of Self-Love," Feb. 7), Lee Siegel missed the opportunity to critically appraise a work that was unfortunately allowed to pass as both prophetic and profound at the time of its publication.

Even with simple or repetitive tasks, we appraise the work to be done and consider the most efficient methods.