(n.) The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.
(n.) A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.
(n.) The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
(n.) A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.
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.
Bankrupt
Definition:
(n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
(n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
(n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
(a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
(a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
(a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
(a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
(v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
Example Sentences:
(1) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(2) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
(3) Green sold BHS for £1 a year ago to a little-known group of investors led by former bankrupt Dominic Chappell .
(4) The Greens controlled BHS for 15 years until they sold it to Dominic Chappell, a three-time bankrupt, for £1 in March 2015.
(5) The economist has managed to persuade fellow EU leaders to release a long-overdue €8bn (£6.8bn) tranche of aid – a lifeline without which the country would have gone bankrupt – but still faces the huge challenges of negotiating a new bailout agreement with international lenders, passing the budget with a majority vote and concluding a debt reduction deal, outlined in the latest €130bn rescue programme for the nation, in the coming weeks.
(6) Green sold BHS for £1 in March 2015 to Dominic Chappell, who has gone bankrupt three times.
(7) This position is both morally bankrupt and hypocritical.
(8) Dominic Chappell, the man who led the buyout, has been declared bankrupt twice.
(9) "I can't imagine how many Chinese factories will go bankrupt, how many Chinese workers would lose their jobs [in the event that China revalued]," he warned.
(10) The challenge facing Europe today goes far wider and deeper than how to handle a small bankrupt country holding only 2% of the EU’s population.
(11) The most famous is Borough Market (the pioneer but has the tendency to bankrupt) but Maltby Street (weekends only) in Bermondsey and Lower Marsh Street (weekdays) in Waterloo are worth a detour.
(12) Staff succeeded despite some seemingly impossible contradictions: John Cardinal O'Connor of the Archdiocese of New York, who has been opposed to the life-styles of most of the people who would use the unit (gays and IV abusers) urged the creation of the unit; St. Clare's had been bankrupt and virtually dismantled just a few years earlier; and the hospital did not have the financial resources, facilities, or AIDS patient caseload of the larger, well-known New York medical institutions.
(13) If you are made bankrupt it is possible to get the bankruptcy order annulled if you can get your creditors to agree to what is called a fast track IVA.
(14) May responded with her well-worn line about Labour borrowing plans that would bankrupt Britain.
(15) The confidence vote was but one step in a long and arduous journey to putting near-bankrupt Greece back on its feet – financially, politically and increasingly socially – barely a year after it secured €110bn (£97bn) in emergency aid, the biggest bailout in western history.
(16) The financial crisis in 2008, the world property crash and Anglo Irish Bank's collapse led to him being bankrupted.
(17) It might be really sordid and bad sexual etiquette, but whatever else it is, it is not rape or you bankrupt the term rape of all meaning."
(18) Aides close to Tsipras insisted that Athens had little desire to “seek enemies abroad” but the leftist leader had a duty to disclose the details of last month’s dramatic negotiations with creditors to keep the bankrupt country afloat.
(19) On Friday in St Petersburg, Florida, the legendary pro-wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, delivered a $115m legal hit on the iconoclastic web publisher, a victory that signals a significant change in the public’s tolerance for media invasions of privacy – and that could bankrupt the site.
(20) Not in the bankrupting part, but they were right that this was a massive corporate giveaway, and they were right that it wasn't going to bring us anywhere near what scientists were saying we needed to do lower emissions.