disappointment unspecified sense

Macaulay and Doherty

• efforts to suppress slave trade have been followed by disappointment hitherto
  assertsnegativesource: sugar-pg52820

  Disappointment has followed every effort hitherto made

  judge verdicts (2)

  • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly supported by the passage. The exact quote 'Disappointment has followed every effort hitherto made' appears verbatim in Macaulay and Doherty's statement to Lord Palmerston, confirming that disappointment has followed efforts to suppress the slave trade up to that point.
  • qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint correctly attributes the statement to Macaulay and Doherty, the stance appropriately uses 'asserts' for a direct statement, the sentiment is correctly marked as negative given the context of failure and disappointment, the temporal qualifier 'hitherto' accurately reflects the passage's language without imposing specific dates, the context is appropriately empty as the passage does not restrict the claim to a particular sense, and the quote appears verbatim in the passage and directly supports the claim.