What's the difference between adjournment and judgement?

Adjournment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
  • (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Proceedings were adjourned until 9.30am local time on Tuesday.
  • (2) It was on that basis that he resumed the adjourned inquest, at which Lugovoy is represented by counsel.
  • (3) On 10 December, he secured an adjournment debate to deliver the third speech in the Commons on schizophrenia since 1967, which will be his big focus for 2013.
  • (4) The court re-affirmed its ruling and parliament met for five minutes before adjourning, pending an appeal to a lower court.
  • (5) 11.19am BST State could ask for Pistorius' mental health to be assessed Nel says he wants to use the adjournment to study the provisions of Criminal Procedures Act, to see whether the prosecution might consider making a request for Pistorius to be assessed by the state: Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) Nel asks for break.
  • (6) A meeting on Friday morning of the OPCW's executive council in The Hague had been adjourned to work on the wording of the plan.
  • (7) Walker, who secured an adjournment debate in the Commons on schizophrenia in December, is exercised by the fact that the unemployment rate for people with this diagnosis stands at 92% – a figure he wants to see drop to 50%.
  • (8) The upheaval, which may spark protests, came after a court case launched by O'Neill's lawyers to stay the warrant for his arrest was adjourned until next week.
  • (9) Bob Watson, chief scientist at the environment department, Defra, and a former White House adviser in the mid-1990s, said it could be possible to adjourn the Copenhagen meeting if agreement is not reached.
  • (10) But when the court adjourned for lunch, June Steenkamp could be seen shaking her head and putting an arm around another family member, while Steenkamp's friend Gina Myers openly wept.
  • (11) The hearing was then adjourned for the judge and jurors to further consider the sentences for the remaining defendants.
  • (12) Day 18: 8 April 2014 The court adjourned early after the defence said Pistorius was too emotional to continue his testimony.
  • (13) Nel jokes that nobody has ever accused him of not "asking enough questions" before, but does not object to another 30-minute adjournment .
  • (14) He has had a stroke and is blind in one eye.” Asking for Reader’s sentence to be adjourned, Scobie said: “We suspect the prognosis for him, long term, is poor.
  • (15) Updated at 2.10pm GMT 1.47pm GMT The court has adjourned until tomorrow morning.
  • (16) Vos granted the adjournment "with considerable regret" to enable her lawyers to apply for a deposition from Macpherson, who is in Australia.
  • (17) The SDLP leader, Alasdair McDonnell, said: “Adjournment would not have added anything, an adjournment would have been there and when the adjournment was over we would still have been drifting toward suspension.
  • (18) It said the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, and foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, had sought a six-month adjournment in September in an attempt to allow the two countries “to seek an amicable settlement”.
  • (19) The Ukraine Freedom Support Act passed both the Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday, but because of a technical issue it returned to the Senate where it passed by unanimous consent moments before the chamber adjourned late on Saturday night.
  • (20) The judge gave his ruling in a packed courtroom and went on to read a summary of his lengthy judgment, before adjourning.

Judgement


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Failure to meet these deadlines, and others listed in the judgement, face a daily fine of 150,000 reais.
  • (2) Our experience in 6 cases show the helpful use of intraoperative ultrasonography in the judgement of normal parenchyma.
  • (3) The histological examination of the biopsies taken during colonoscopy differentiated less clearly between these two entities than the macroscopic judgement by the endoscopist.
  • (4) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
  • (5) A second sample of individuals sort the problem statements on the basis of their judgements of the similarity among the statements.
  • (6) This judgement is particularly significant for the UK as it was the testimony of two leading experts, Professor Nicholas J. Wald and Sir Richard Doll, whose evidence helped convince the Judge about the harmful health effects of passive smoke.
  • (7) The discrepancy between the judgement of the insurance company based upon the medical records and the patients complaints also 4-7 years after injury as well as the diversification of therapeutical procedures used in the long term patients career are indicating a necessity of prospective study on cervical spine injury.
  • (8) Studies show that professionals often fail to reach reliable or valid conclusions and that the accuracy of their judgements does not necessarily surpass that of laypersons, thus raising substantial doubt that psychologists or psychiatrists meet legal standards for expertise.
  • (9) We cannot expect results of controlled trials alone to determine standard therapy, for clinical judgements are also required.
  • (10) Excessively optimistic judgements of driving competency and accident risk have often been implicated in the disproportionate involvement of young males in traffic crashes.
  • (11) This paper argues that negative judgements on those with HIV infection or in groups associated with such infection will cause avoidable psychological and social distress.
  • (12) Indication and judgement are often uncritically performed.
  • (13) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
  • (14) There is therefore a need to make judgements on the significance of, and risks associated with, these discrepancies.
  • (15) "We know that people's emotional states affect their judgements and that happy people are more likely to judge an ambiguous situation positively," Mendl said.
  • (16) Medical students in a course that included instruction in patient interviewing participated in an experiment devised to alert them to sources of bias which might influence their judgements and management of patients.
  • (17) We conclude that the judgements of both the officer and doctor of the police are needed for an efficacious detection of drivers under the influence of drugs.
  • (18) Clinical judgement and skill in the performance of cesarean sections, dilatation and curettage, and other forms of uterine invasive techniques may help to keep subsequent incidence of placenta previa at a reasonably low rate.
  • (19) We are considering the judgement very carefully before we decide on the next steps to take.” The LLDC will also be obliged to reveal which costs it is meeting, on matchdays and elsewhere, and which are being met by West Ham.
  • (20) The concept is practicable in all parts of the vertebral column and allows a differentiated judgement within the usual percentages.

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