Sentence examples for stocktaking as from inspiring English sources

■ A little stocktaking as the year ends.

The song is a kind of stocktaking, as Cyrus looks back in amazement at the situation she now finds herself in: reunited with a lost love, and wearing a turtleneck on the beach.

But with soul-searching and stocktaking at unprecedented levels, the nation is also demanding answers as to how the debt-laden Greek economy got into such a mess.

The Americans are describing this as a mere stocktaking exercise; the Europeans as "timely and important".

The meeting, described by No 10 as "stocktaking", was attended by the home secretary, Theresa May, who described security preparations for the Olympics as "robust".

This is the second stocktaking report since UNICEF, as part of its work as a UNAIDS cosponsoring agency, issued a Call to Action to Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS in October 2005.

British officials described it as a "stocktaking session" in advance of the G20 summit in Mexico on 18-19 June.

But the archaic, vernacular name of wax dolls was also a reminder of why the word biodiversity, coined by E.O.Wilson and often used today as biological stocktaking jargon to encompass the totality of wild species, is so inadequate in defining our relationship with nature.

Related secondary time issues such as drug stocktaking, ordering drugs from the central pharmacy and time taken to issue discharge prescriptions were not studied.

A study conducted by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training together with PMO RALG as a stocktaking exercise of COBET implementation in 2006 came out with a different picture.

By Roshni Karwal NEW YORK, 1 December 2008 – A new report from four UN agencies entitled 'Children and AIDS: Third Stocktaking Report, 2008' is advocating for increased HIV testing for newborns as young as six-weeks-old.