(n.) One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner.
(n.) An interlocutory judgment or sentence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Few Malians take Campaoré as a legitimate interlocutor, and no one believes that he has the country's interests at heart.
(2) In a meeting with another American official last summer, he explained his strategy of targeting rural populations and small towns, impressing his interlocutor.
(3) where the child is presented as the agent of a meaningful activity or not, shows how the place constructed for the baby as an interlocutor in maternal speech evolves with age.
(4) Henry VIII would have understood but modern-day interlocutors find it harder to grasp.
(5) According to diplomatic sources, Blair has been a key interlocutor in recent days.
(6) However, he said their Taliban interlocutors were "very silent" on the question of the Haqqani network, which has attacked US and Afghan forces from their base in Pakistan.
(7) Hamas’s new document must be recognised as an opportunity to engage with a crucial interlocutor that continues to enjoy some legitimacy among its constituents.
(8) Suhail said the Taliban are insistent that they want their first interlocutors to be the United States.
(9) He also says he dreamed that he carried a sword bearing the words "there is no god but Allah" written in red, and confirmed to his interlocutor that he harboured presidential ambitions outside of his visions.
(10) Pillay said her interlocutors painted a "very disturbing picture" of domestic violence, suggesting rape was fairly commonplace but rarely investigated.
(11) And it typically lacks solid conclusions, leading interlocutors nowhere.
(12) He is absolutely precise, he reacts as you would expect to his interlocutor, he analyses fairly quickly, answers questions that are put to him.
(13) Palestinians and their supporters have frequently charged that, rather than a neutral interlocutor, Blair is strongly pro-Israel.
(14) Like all ambassadors, part of his role is to report the views of others.” Speaking later in the House of Commons, Mark Garnier, a trade minister, said Rogers had been reporting the views of “interlocutors”.
(15) The Vatican was a key interlocutor in the secret negotiations that preceded the thaw.
(16) It is better to have an interlocutor who is not constantly looking for votes because they have had the election in order to work towards a good solution.
(17) Over five months of negotiations, Varoufakis, a leftwing economist and neophyte politician, has rubbed his interlocutors up the wrong way, persistently arguing he is right and everyone else is wrong when it comes to dealing with the Greek debt crisis.
(18) The Profile of Communicative Appropriateness (Penn, 1983) was used to assess communicative competence in one discourse interaction with a known interlocutor (mother).
(19) Could there be movement on this central point, the possibility of Ipso collecting its money direct from those it regulates (with an independent finance interlocutor on hand to ensure fair play)?
(20) Kerry admitted to his Indian interlocutors that "on the Pakistani side of the border, a change was needed in the dynamics of how a fragile Pakistani civilian government and its strong military interacted with groups such as the Quetta Shura [the Taliban top leadership]" as well as the network of insurgents led by extremist cleric Jalaluddin Haqqani .
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.