Sentence examples for influential assessment from inspiring English sources

In the influential assessment of Richard Hofstadter, Prohibition was a farce, "a means by which the reforming energies of the country were transmuted into mere peevishness".

Mr. Leiser urged Mr. Cronkite to travel to Vietnam during the Tet offensive in 1968 and accompanied him -- a trip that led to Mr. Cronkite's influential assessment of the war as a "stalemate".

Widely acknowledged as the world's most comprehensive and influential assessment of global anti-trafficking efforts, the Tip report is a potentially powerful advocacy and campaigning tool for anti-slavery groups working both in country and internationally.

In the 1990s, he helped the United Nations produce an influential assessment of the world's crop diversity and later helped lead a campaign to save an important Russian collection of fruit and berry germ plasm (an effort that earned him election to the Russian Academy of Sciences).

He was chairman of the United Nations panel from 1988 to 1997 and, with scientific expertise and acquired diplomatic skills, shepherded the panel through the first two of its influential climatological assessment reports.

In a very influential early assessment, Nancy Fraser argues that, although Foucault's work offers some interesting empirical insights into the functioning of modern power, it is "normatively confused" (Fraser 1989, 31).

For example, it is possible to utilize the high-level GO 'slim' functional terms, and then clusters can be evaluated in how well they recapitulate these terms, using sensitivity and positive predictive value measures, as introduced in an influential quantitative assessment of how well clustering approaches can uncover known protein complexes (Brohée and van Helden, 2006).

Joint programme aims to improve health and nutrition for 30% of population LUSAKA, Zambia (By Patrick Slavin/UNICEF) – Zambia's Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health (MCDMCH) hosted the national dissemination of five influential baseline assessment reports of the Millennium Development Goal Initiative (MDGi) on 17 June in Lusaka.

The most influential wine assessments in the world are those scores, out of a hundred, which appear in Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate, followed by similar systems in such magazines as Wine Spectator.

Henry and Conrad (2008) emphasized the major differences between journal peer review and the "more demanding" reviews that OMB's Peer Review Bulletin (OMB 2005) imposes on federal agencies regarding science they propose to rely on particularly "highly influential scientific assessments".

[As with the IQA, information disseminated as part of an adjudication (e.g., a permit decision) is exempt from rules outlined in the bulletin, unless it is novel or precedential and peer review is practical.] The bulletin sets especially high standards for "highly influential" scientific assessments.