(v. t.) To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge.
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Adjudicate
Definition:
(v. t.) To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.
(v. i.) To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rating disagreements were resolved by a skilled dermatologist who acted as adjudicator.
(2) Sylvia Walby, in her new book, The Future of Feminism , adjudicates on this magisterially.
(3) The effectiveness of a time-out intervention for adolescent psychiatric patients, adjudicated (delinquent) youth, and behaviorally disordered youngsters was explored in this study.
(4) Residents in the Boeung Kak lake area were denied access to due process of adjudication of property claims and were displaced, in violation of the policies the bank agreed with the government for handling resettlement, the panel found.
(5) Results indicated that adolescents experiencing greater volume of family contact tended to have less involvement with both court adjudication and delinquency behaviors (r = -.16 to -.38).
(6) "We will then draft a recommendation and refer your complaint to the ASA council for adjudication."
(7) Assessing the cause of death requires special attention to criteria, documentation, and adjudication.
(8) What the recent government announcements seek to remove is any effective funding for the majority of legal issues faced by prisoners, such as all internal disciplinary measures like governor adjudications and segregation, the separation of mothers and babies in the specialist mother and baby units, and any resettlement issues.
(9) Although both the Bush and Obama DOJs ultimately prevented final adjudication by raising claims of secrecy and standing, and the "Look Forward, Not Backward (for powerful elites)" Obama DOJ refused to prosecute the responsible officials, all three federal judges to rule on the substance found that domestic spying to be unconstitutional and in violation of the statute.
(10) To determine the characteristics of cases of drug treatment refusal under the Rivers decision, which mandated court adjudication of such cases, the authors made a retrospective study of all applications for court review during 1 year in New York State inpatient facilities.
(11) In 2009, an adjudication by the Advertising Standards Agency concluded that an advert made by Kids Company made misleading claims about a supposed link between emotional development, brain size and violent behaviour.
(12) Obama’s preferred pathway to adjudicating their fates is to perform quasi-parole hearings, known as Periodic Review Boards, whereby the administration comes to a consensus about whether or not they pose a continuing threat.
(13) The availability of psychosocial treatment for sex offenders is influenced to a considerable extent by the process of adjudication.
(14) Groceries adjudicator bill An independent adjudicator will be established to ensure supermarkets deal fairly and lawfully with suppliers.
(15) The data indicate that although the frequency and average amount of recovery are not affected by the panel system, the system leads to an increase in the number of disputes seeking formal adjudication, an increase in the cost of the process, and a lengthening of the time within which disputes are resolved.
(16) The percentage venograms adjudicated as inadequate by at least one radiologist and inter-observer disagreement for both series were used as the main study outcome measures.
(17) The press will have no veto over who sits on the board and serving editors will not be members of any committee advising on complaints, unlike the old system in which editors adjudicated on each other.
(18) Therefore, it was not a direct competitor to the agencies whose work the IRM panels were adjudicating on.
(19) As psychologists have become increasingly involved in the investigatory and adjudicative phases of child maltreatment cases and as criminal prosecutions have become increasingly common in such cases, the ethical problems facing psychologists have become more acute.
(20) The investigation and adjudication process operates in most parts unseen and unheard,” he said.