1.   The effects of blood loss on liver function can lead to an unduly pessimistic assessment of liver status.

2.   Most of the fall was due to a more pessimistic assessment of current business conditions.

3.   That is the pessimistic assessment.

4.   The numbers tend to back this pessimistic assessment.

5.   They returned to the city with a pessimistic assessment.

6.   This pessimistic assessment is a sign of just how sharply scholarly thinking about the Web has shifted.

7.   This week, pessimistic assessments of budget talks between the White House and congressional Republicans only made matters worse.

8.   At the end of the evening session, al-Anbari said there had been no change in his pessimistic assessment.

9.   Instead,investors, upset by a pessimistic economic assessment accompanying the rate reduction, sent stocks lower.

10.   Instead, investors, upset by a pessimistic economic assessment accompanying the rate reduction, either sold stocks lower or bought cautiously.