What's the difference between adjudicator and stickler?

Adjudicator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who adjudicates.

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.

Stickler


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One who stickles.
  • (v. t.) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.
  • (v. t.) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schwartz was a stickler for historical detail, which, combined with Friedman's vision of a unifying structure for tracing the effects of monetary developments on the economy, led to an entertaining work that changed our view of how the macroeconomy worked.
  • (2) These findings suggest that, at least in some families, the mutation causing Stickler syndrome affects the structural locus for type II collagen.
  • (3) (A little later, I watch director Foley ask a genially menacing professor Capaldi to lift, and lift, and lift, the needle from a record in, I think it was, 12 different ways, to get it just so; I think "stickler" is fair.)
  • (4) The ocular histopathologic findings in three patients with the Stickler syndrome from two families included the following: total retinal detachment with marked folding, disorganization of the retina, and a preretinal membrane.
  • (5) The phone-hacking trial has thrown up many nibblettes of celebrity ephemera, but perhaps the most extraordinary latest reveal is that Her Majesty is a stickler for her snacks .
  • (6) The total LOD score for linkage of the Stickler syndrome and COL2A1 at a recombination fraction (theta) of zero is 3.59.
  • (7) A three generation family with Stickler syndrome is reported.
  • (8) The Stickler syndrome is an autosomal dominant hereditary disorder of connective tissue with pleiotropic features including premature osteoarthropathy, mild spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, vitreoretinal degeneration, and the Pierre-Robin sequence.
  • (9) They deplore the loss of ancient liturgy and Latin; they are sticklers for the rules, especially on sexual morality, and prize top-down authority over individual conscience.
  • (10) Our experience suggests that the Stickler syndrome is not rare.
  • (11) Because of the growing list of complications associated with mitral-valve prolapse, all patients with Stickler syndrome should be evaluated by auscultation, electrocardiogram, and echocardiography.
  • (12) That the Chinese, normally sticklers for protocol, agreed showed Xi was more open than his predecessors, Ruan Zongze, a vice-president of the China Institute of International Studies, a thinktank linked to the Chinese foreign ministry, told Reuters.
  • (13) Stickler's syndrome is a congenital disease of connective tissue with considerable ocular and non-ocular lesions.
  • (14) My mother is a stickler for tidiness and that has come in handy.
  • (15) Stickler syndrome may be underrecognized by rheumatologists, particularly if the significance of nonarticular clinical features or a positive family history are not appreciated.
  • (16) A family is described illustrating diverse expressions of Stickler syndrome, including abnormalities not directly attributable to mutation of the type II procollagen gene.
  • (17) BBC staffers not already familiar with their new boss may also like to know that he is a stickler for punctuality.
  • (18) Hereditary Arthro-ophthalmopathy (The Stickler Syndrome) is a relatively common dominantly inherited disorder of connective tissue.
  • (19) The once scruffy youth became a stickler for sartorial decorum.
  • (20) We report the occurrence of progressive Brown-Séquard syndrome as the presenting clinical feature of cervical spondylosis in a young patient with Stickler's syndrome.

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