"We will continue to monitor Aliir and assess him as the week progresses.
His classmates shrewdly assessed him as having "strong convictions and even stronger ambitions".
Laudatory obituaries assessed him as a great man who had somehow failed.
Now I assess him as an epoch-defining aficionado of the very best in American bad taste.
The domestic security service had not assessed him as posing a sufficient danger to require full monitoring.
Rashida Iqbal, the jail's curator, assessed him as "one of the most important freedom fighters".
Nobody on campus assessed him as a future star of any kind, except perhaps in golf, a sport at which he excelled.
In another cable a year later, American diplomats were scathing when assessing him as a cabinet choice, calling him "exceptionally corrupt and incompetent".
His reputation was slow to develop, but modern critics have assessed him as one of the greatest of all Italian novelists.
Cairns was detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act, but was released when a psychiatrist assessed him as being of no risk to others and low risk to himself.
