A State Department official offered a more cautious assessment.

Our military plan was based on this cautious assessment.

The book is replete with upbeat, if cautious, assessments of those reforms.

In a cautious assessment of the economy, he said the biggest obstacle to faster growth was uncertainty about a likely war with Iraq.

The cautious near-term assessment is based on expectations about coming economic reports.

"That's, er, something of a more cautious assessment than a lot of the things we've been hearing," he commented.

He offered a cautious assessment of the current economy.

But some State Department officials offered a more cautious assessment than the Pentagon.

But she offered a more cautious assessment than in years past.

Among the documents declassified today, the majority have proven to be accurate, if cautious, assessments of contemporary developments.