(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.
Verdict
Definition:
(n.) The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.
(n.) Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public.
Example Sentences:
(1) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
(2) The final verdict on Iran's nuclear programme will rest with the head of the IAEA, Mohammed ElBaradei, who will issue a crucial report to the agency's governing board next month.
(3) Thokozile Masipa, a 68-year-old former journalist who was only the second black woman to be appointed to the high court, was praised for her calm authority despite her controversial original verdict.
(4) Verdict Phil Spencer promised games and he delivered lots and lots of games, some of them really rather beautiful to look at.
(5) Dr Bhambra sustained the most dreadful life-changing injuries during a sustained racist attack on an innocent man, a member of a caring profession.” There was applause from the public gallery as the verdict was returned.
(6) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
(7) Dan Biers, the first secretary at the US embassy, said it was disappointed by the verdict.
(8) Unesco will give its verdict on the proposal when the world heritage committee meets in June this year.
(9) Right now, I feel free,” Nona Gaye said after the verdict.
(10) Cameron's team began spinning their verdict 15 minutes before the debate ended.
(11) The verdict in the Hayes trial suggested that the much-maligned organisation was finally making a mark under Green, just at it stepped up investigations into some the biggest companies in Britain, including Tesco, Rolls-Royce and Barclays.
(12) In a statement the family said they were left "extremely sad and disappointed" by the verdicts: "We appreciate the work and effort over the years since events on Broadwater Farm that night in trying to bring people to justice.
(13) The jurors' handbook for New York's southern district lists critical questions to ask potential jurors, such as whether they "have any personal interest in the case, or know of any reason why they cannot render an impartial verdict?"
(14) He expressed faith in Russian courts – which issue guilty verdicts in more than 99% of cases – and refused to mention Navalny by name.
(15) Here, we give our verdict on 10 new towers, built and imminent, counting down to the very worst offender … 10.
(16) Speaking to the Guardian, Ghavami’s brother Iman, 28, said the family felt “shattered” by the court verdict.
(17) "Following a meeting with the Secretary of State Ed Davey today, we are considering our position as clearly the challenge for us and the entire solar industry in the UK is within the detail of the CFD regime itself; which solar is now being forced into and more specifically, how this system is going to be implemented for solar; which clearly has different considerations to other technologies.” Updated at 5.53pm BST 5.48pm BST My verdict Our question today was probably misguided.
(18) So, as the Lib Dems head this weekend into their second conference in government, after an extraordinarily traumatic year, what is his verdict?
(19) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
(20) The verdicts came as GSK finds itself the target of a separate corruption investigation in China after a whistleblower raised allegations of widespread bribery.