Sentence examples for assessment to date from inspiring English sources

The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, testifying before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on Wednesday, said the economy could contract over the first half of this year, his most pessimistic assessment to date.

In its most detailed assessment to date of China's island-building program, the defense department said three of the land features in the Spratly Islands now have nearly 10,000ft runways and large ports in various stages of construction.

WASHINGTON — In his bleakest economic assessment to date, Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said Wednesday that the American economy could contract in the first half of 2008, meeting the strict definition of a recession, and he called on Congress to strengthen the nation's distressed housing industries.

In the most thorough assessment to date, the team has found that saplings are overcrowded, putting them at risk of disease.

The most accurate assessment to date of the impact of commercial fishing on sharks suggests around 100 million are being killed each year.

Scientists and officials meeting in Japan have published the most comprehensive assessment to date of the impacts of climate change on the world.

We present one of the largest baseline datasets on newborn skin assessments to date; information which is pivotal to the design of future studies in this field.

Although uncertainty analyses are central in many environmental change assessments, to date they have drawn relatively little attention in studies investigating the environment-migration nexus.

A detailed study now provides one of the most insightful assessments to date of how environmentally relevant levels of PBDEs may impair brain development by interfering with thyroid hormone receptor (TR)–mediated transcription [ EHP 119(2):168–175; Ibhazehiebo et al.].

Thus, we are not yet able to test the specific effects of vertical integration or repeated exposure to the same botanical theme from different angles (genetics, physiology, ecology, etc).. Additionally, assessments to date have focused on a single, large-enrollment majors' course (BIOL 211).

In summary, although the epidemiological studies do not paint a consistent picture regarding perchlorate exposure and thyroid effects, the largest and most complete assessments to date, Blount et al. (2006a) and Steinmaus et al. (2007), did find such an association at doses commonly encountered in the general U.S. population.