Sentence examples for initial take on from inspiring English sources

"Our initial take on guidance is that it appears aggressive and hinges on Campath," Robyn Karnauskas, biotechnology analyst at Deutsche Bank, said in a note Friday.

He has had front-row seats to several attacks on or near US embassies over his long diplomatic career, which might explain his initial take on the 20-hour siege.

The initial take on Mr. Kabila, 29, the son of Laurent Kabila, who was killed two weeks ago, was that he is "not as bad as his Dad," as one official put it.

The initial take on Mr. Putin is that he sees Russia's future as a fairly democratic one, with a market economy of some kind and participation in the world community, the officials said.

The Chrome 11 beta also bring an initial take on GPU-accelerated 3D CSS, Google notes.

My initial take on this story is that we're dealing with an absurdly inflated number.

My initial take on the new RDS service is that it seems that it involves pre-defined and pre-configured EC2 instances with MySQL running.

[Update: Our initial take on the Netflix-Comcast agreement was called to task for implying that it would change how net neutrality would be applied to common infrastructure.

"They're having to review a lot of the initial takes on things," the official said.

Here's what we think of Jonathan Franzen's new novel: three very different initial takes on Purity.

Still, some of the startlingly resonant images Nilsen works up in the initial chapters take on additional meaning later.