1.   Preliminary assessments suggested that Kuwait had suffered catastrophic damage to its infrastructure during the Gulf conflict.

2.   A preliminary assessment suggests that perhaps three quarters of these specimen clauses would be caught, but that the remainder of them would need specific implementation.

3.   A preliminary assessment by international financial institutions found that Hurricane Mitch affected about one quarter of the total population of the four countries in one way or another.

4.   But Mrs. Kinnock, visiting a downtown counting station Monday, offered a positive preliminary assessment of the voting itself.

5.   By the time Endeavour has landed, shuttle engineers may have a preliminary assessment of how well the repaired nozzle joints in the two booster rockets survived the launching.

6.   Hasty is challenging a preliminary medical assessment that acknowledges the effects of the head injury but, in his opinion, ignores the other multiple injuries that occurred.

7.   If their preliminary assessments are correct, distant Europa has a warm inner core and liquid water, two key conditions favorable to life.

8.   In June the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, released a preliminary assessment of the deals.

9.   It found that investigators are processing cases often without conducting a preliminary case assessment to ensure the most serious cases are investigated first.

10.   Most historians and presidential scholars say it is still too early to judge, but preliminary assessments rank him strong on foreign policy and less successful domestically.