They fund it, they endorse its headline conclusions - and they get to decide how the assessments should be run.
Two recent research reports reach very different conclusions - but on closer examination both may be telling the same story.
Reasonable people should wait for the facts to come out before jumping to conclusions -- or trying to score political points.
I'm told some of those conclusions - and the debate that is likely to follow - will be pretty tough to deal with.
Mr. Gaffney's testimony drew on the 2004 findings of the Iraq Survey Group, which - despite concerted efforts by critics of the Bush Administration and its liberation of Iraq to obscure a number of the ISG's most important conclusions - established that Saddam maintained active chemical and biological weapons programs until he was toppled, programs that he intended to greatly expand once sanctions were lifted.
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More may be revealed in the long-delayed conclusions of a foreign-policy review.
But care needs to be taken when drawing hard conclusions from fast-food prices.
The EU foreign ministers and their diplomats are drafting the summit conclusions on Monday - but the continuing disagreements are likely to leave many gaps.
However, now that everyone has finally come around to the fact that these conclusions were off-base and that consumers charged-off on their debt instead of paying it down, the picture is quite different.
The Welsh Government has commissioned Beaufort Research to carry out a qualitative survey of people's attitudes to an opt-out system of organ donation which comes to some striking - and perhaps counterintuitive - conclusions about this very issue.
Federal Reserve officials this afternoon will release a summary of their conclusions from a two-day meeting.
Also, drawing long-term conclusions on data from the great recession has its own limitations.
The results don't change things, he argues, because any conclusions made from follow-up results tend to be weak.
He warns strongly that there is still no far-reaching conclusions from its results.
EURid-UNESCO conclusions urge policy makers to regard the promotion and deployment of IDNs as a key component of digital literacy.
One analyst says the market drew incorrect conclusions from the first-quarter results.
Too often there is hardly any solid science supporting their impressive-sounding conclusions.
This panel performs a real public service and its conclusions deserve careful scrutiny - by President Bush, as well as the rest of us.
To reach these counter-intuitive conclusions, Bendersky and Shah ran two experiments.
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Rather than scrutinizing the messenger and calling it a day, we should scrutinize the message, correcting for the messenger, and not shy away from fact-based conclusions.
The Summary for Policymakers agreed in Abu Dhabi gives the top-line conclusions from the full report, compiled by 120 experts, which runs to more than 1, 000 pages.
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The Iranians are well aware of the results of November's Congressional elections, and of the conclusions of the Baker-Hamilton study, which recommends direct engagement with Iran over Iraq.
This inability to question your own conclusions is hugely self-limiting.
It's too early to draw long-term conclusions about his adjustment.
Ask for evidence to support assertions, demanding that ideologies be sufficiently elaborated to separate rhetoric from reality-based conclusions, to independently determine whether specific means ever justify vague and harmful ends.
But extrapolating real-world conclusions from that finding is difficult.
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Even so, his conclusions about our near-certain doom have him grinning like a know-it-all at math camp, an arm waving eagerly in the air as he beats the other kids to the grim answer.
Jim Michaels hated wishy-washy conclusions to FORBES stories.
Austrian economics comes to strongly free-market conclusions.
European Union leaders said Friday that they are "deeply concerned" about the surge in violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe ahead of next week's vote, according to a draft of the conclusions of a two-day EU summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium.
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