The nation's antiterrorism efforts must be based on assessments of risk, not on formulas that sprinkle dollars around and not on reaction to bombings elsewhere.
Every other Westchester municipality, however, is taxing homeowners based on assessments that are, on average, 38 years old, and thus reflect and preserve quirky and even inequitable judgments.
Ms. Estrin said the promising early research points to possibilities like increasingly personalized treatments based on assessments of individual patterns of behavior.
These so-called signature strikes are based on assessments that men carrying weapons or in a militant compound are legitimate targets.
It's based on assessments, testing and her own personal tolerance for risk (someone else may have made a different choice, and that would also be defensible).
"Any decision we make will be based on assessments currently being made of the country's food needs," a Foreign Office spokesman said.
Counterterrorism officials say privately that official conclusions about issues like Al Qaeda's strength in the United States are subjective, based on assessments by terrorism experts who rely on a mosaic of information gleaned from a variety of sources.
Our analysis of the staffing requirements for ELC is based on assessments of student demand which have been developed in conjunction with ELC themselves and they take into account the growth estimates provided by ELC.
The rationale for pay based on assessments, as opposed to collective bargaining, is that the best workers will be attracted to workplaces where their hard work and skills will be rewarded.
More than 500,000 public servants have been placed under a duty to implement the tool and several dozen children have been directly affected, through the courts, based on assessments using the tool.
A tiny fraction of consumers has the knowledge to discriminate among the entire range of available stereo components, and to make an informed choice based on assessments of cost and performance.
