That is why Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill asked for an audit of community services to get a clear picture of where we are in meeting our targets for getting offenders started on - and completing - their punishments.
The FDA will take new steps to track exactly what kinds of mistakes happen and will commission new studies to get a clear picture of which drugs are most involved in errors.
Analysts said possible problems with the accuracy of official data made it hard to use them to get a clear picture of China's economic health.
Its staff of biologists and astrophysicists uses pattern-recognition software to get a clear picture of how all these genes are switching on and off, literally following how the genetic code is creating and recreating the body.
This is like trying to get a clear picture of a mountain by examining individual pebbles.
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We were deep indoors though, so native GPS wasn't working and we couldn't get a clear idea of satellite acquisition time.
Arsenal were struggling to get a clear sight of Burnley's goal, and Wenger made an alteration when he introduced Eduardo for Theo Walcott, who was subdued throughout.
Still, bidders in the auctions don't get a clear idea of how many travelers they are competing against, or how many seats they're fighting for.
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But it makes it very difficult to get a clear picture of how Zetia will perform for Schering-Plough, or of the company's future in general.
"Looking back at the progress made with reconstruction over this last year, we get a clear sense of the strength of Japan's private sector, " Kiuchi said.
The report from MPs expressed concerns about the preferred candidate's suitability, saying that they "struggled to get a clear picture of Professor Ebdon's strategy for the future of Offa".
United were struggling to get a clear sight of Barcelona's goal, and in a bid to remedy this problem Ferguson sent on Dimitar Berbatov for Park with 25 minutes remaining.
My contact and his fellow directors flew back and forth between China and the UK in an effort to turn things around, but could not get a clear understanding of what was going wrong.
Naturally, the fact that schools like KIPP receive so much private funding makes it a bit more difficult to get a clear picture of what the effects of imitating KIPP would be within a public school context.
It can be difficult to get a clear answer out of people who are uncomfortable with saying no in general, and of course attitudes may change.
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Flurry is able to get a crystal clear picture of the Android and iOS markets through its data set from over 140, 000 apps that run on those predominant platforms.
In any event, it now behooves all Americans - Republicans and Democrats alike - to get clear about the nature of the enemy, to stop its grand jihad and to work together to keep America shariah-free.
The movie is a sardonic look at the mechanics of the rock world: we get the clear idea that in this kind of high-schlock touring band no difference exists between the original and the copy.
X5 has degraded such that I can no longer get clear reception or any at all of radio stations that came in loud and clear in past years.
And they would help deal with the "28 or more different state services that come calling at the door" so that rather than a string of "disconnected" officials, they could get a "clear hard-headed recognition of how the family is going wrong".
The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day.
Although acronyms get in the way of clear communication, even my best marketers have the urge to turn every project, every product, and every position into an acronym.
Underlying these revisionist claims of exploitation, one thing has been clear from the get-go: The dominant motivation of the bloggers who have posted on Huffington Post has always been far more about narcissism than altruism.
Two flags--one of Pakistan and the other of China--flutter alongside each other on the front lawn of an appliance factory 12 miles outside Lahore, offering a clear sign of where Pakistan could get its much-needed next wave of investment.
That way, you can get clear direction from your supervisor instead of toiling away every night until you get bitter or burned out.
Before you begin investing in an employee that has just screwed up, get very clear about the true value of the employee and the effort required in their reputation rehab.
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In the evenings, chamois (a goat-antelope species native to mountains in Europe) click across the surrounding rocks, and if the weather is clear you get the most unusual of mountain views, peering down onto ships far below on the Atlantic Ocean.
The troubling question is why did our State Department agree to work with the head of the OIC to make this a law, get this resolution passed in the UN with the clear intent of implementing it against US citizens?
Its first attempt to clear a path was to get lots of new customers.
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