Sentence examples for evaluate accusations from inspiring English sources
The cardinal, like bishops around the nation, has established a lay review board to evaluate accusations against priests.
REVIEW BOARDS Review boards set up to help bishops evaluate accusations are to work in secret, their lay members must be practicing Catholics in good standing with their bishop.
Four out of five of the nation's 178 dioceses have lay boards to evaluate accusations, but critics question whether the boards are aggressive or open enough, given that the bishops appoint their members.
Seventy-six percent of the nation's 195 dioceses say they have review boards to evaluate accusations of abuse; 82 percent conduct background checks on clergymen and volunteers who work with minors; and 92 percent have a written policy on sexual abuse available to the public.
The law, Ms. Reno continued, artificially limited her own ability to evaluate an accusation against high-level officials, forcing her to seek an outside inquiry unless she was certain it was unwarranted.
It also spelled out new guidelines for evaluating fresh accusations and backed off an earlier decision to report cases only with an accuser's consent.
It also spelled out guidelines for evaluating new accusations and backed off an earlier policy that it would only report cases to prosecutors with the consent of the accuser.
At that time, the Colombian people evaluated the accusations and elected him as their president, confident in his dedication to an agenda intended to rid Colombia of its narcotics and terrorist problems.
And some aides said that, although she became more skeptical of the law, she never wavered in her insistence in fully evaluating every accusation involving Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore.
Under the revised rules, a lay board composed of psychologists and other professionals will still help the bishops evaluate the credibility of the accusations brought against individual priests.
Police have not charged Galliano and a source said: "We are going to evaluate the credibility of the accusations and Mr Galliano's denials before deciding what action to take".
