Any realistic assessment of Egypt's "opposition" shows it to be weak, disorganised, and indifferently led.
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Such backsliding, even if founded on a realistic assessment of the risks, is bound to antagonise his opponents.
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Part of that realistic assessment means to also accept that sometimes the airplane will be unavailable, when scheduled maintenance is done.
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But like the panic over marriage, this panic over the F word is more ideological than a realistic assessment of the world as we know it.
To some extent the merger failed only because the claims made for the combined company were foolish, based on wishes rather than any realistic assessment of the market and the world.
Boomer intentions to work into retirement represent a more realistic assessment of retirement overall, but good intentions can be upset by circumstances beyond your control (your health, caregiver demands, job cuts).
EU's envoy to Macedonia, who, on the eve of his arrival on June 27th, proposed rather tactlessly that the Slav-led government should hold its nose and negotiate with the rebels: a realistic assessment, perhaps, but one that so enraged the Slavs that he was obliged to backtrack within 24 hours.
The Senator -- who is rapidly emerging as one of the Senate's most authoritative voices on issues critical to American foreign policy and national security -- also provided a principled and realistic assessment of the steps that must be taken in the Middle East in order to achieve real peace in the region.
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We request that Castro be kept on the State Department's List of Terrorist Nations and that a realistic threat assessment be made -- which includes an examination of Cuba's biotechnical capabilities -- as the Castro dictatorship moves towards its final stage.
Appearing before the assembly's public accounts committee on Tuesday, Mr Sissling agreed with the "realistic and reasonable assessment of the scale of pressure in the NHS".
To ensure we have the resources to prepare for the future, and to address the emerging challenges to homeland security, we needed a more realistic and balanced assessment of our near-term warfighting needs.
"In the case of a firefighter who develops a long term condition this means carrying out a risk assessment and taking a much more realistic approach, " says Ms Valentine.
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