I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a case comes before a judge/court
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The case came before the federal courts.
a judge directs/instructs a jury (= tells it what to decide )
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The judge directed the jury to find her not guilty.
appear before a court/judge/committee etc
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She appeared before Colchester magistrates charged with attempted murder.
consider/judge the merits of sth (= think about whether or not something is a good idea )
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The committee is considering the merits of the proposal.
judge a competition (= decide who has won it )
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A panel of five will judge the competition.
judge by appearances (= make judgements based on the way sb/sth looks )
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You shouldn’t judge by appearances.
judge distances (= judge how much space there is between things )
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Animals that hunt can judge distances very well.
judging by sb’s reactions
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Judging by the audience’s reactions, the show will be a great success.
the trial judge
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The trial judge acquitted the accused on the charge of assault.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
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The decision was announced by federal district judge William Hoeveler at a pre-trial hearing on Jan. 11.
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It was also last month that a federal judge refused to dismiss the state lawsuit against Desert Diamond Casino.
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Yet it does not automatically follow that last week's decision by a federal judge to close Napster was the right one.
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A federal trial judge in New York adopted that stance in this case.
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He has about four months remaining in a sentence imposed by a federal judge in Boston June 15, 1994.
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A federal judge has frozen most of the assets.
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But a federal judge ruled last May that probable cause existed to grant the extradition.
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He would impose term limits on the members of Congress and federal judges .
high
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A High Court judge has ruled that her injuries weren't the result of negligence.
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In 1988 a High Court judge was given charge of the list.
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A High Court judge has ruled that they don't have the same rights as traditional gypsies.
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There are only seven women high court judges , two in the court of appeal, and no women law lords.
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But a High Court judge said the plans were already public when they bought the house.
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Appeal was the only corrective for a mistake by a High Court judge and that had been removed by statute.
senior
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Rules are to be drawn up by the Law Society, subject to approval by the Lord Chancellor and four senior judges .
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Cecil F.. Poole, who became a senior judge with a lightened caseload last January.
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In the debate referred to, the senior judges renewed their attack.
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Partisan nomination of senior judges used to be the rule in Britain but has not really been so since the 1920s.
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The senior judge in question is former chief justice Eusoff Chin, who ran the judiciary throughout the Anwar trial.
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One of Britain's most senior judges has attacked plans to send more people to jail.
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The bill gives four senior judges and the Lord Chancellor a veto over rules for solicitor advocates.
■ NOUN
court
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A High Court judge has ruled that her injuries weren't the result of negligence.
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As a Supreme Court judge , he made $ 65, 100.
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Rather than increasing the sentence, three appeal court judges substituted a three-year probation order requiring him to undergo treatment or counselling.
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Women who had the ability to be Supreme Court judges were worth just as much to society then as now.
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But the other Supreme Court judges are making a stand against the government.
deputy
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The deputy judge gave very careful consideration to all the evidence to which I have referred.
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The deputy judge concluded that the onus of establishing testamentary competence had not been discharged.
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There is one authority on the point that was not available to the deputy judge .
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The deputy judge had to take into account also the other evidence relevant to the issue of testamentary competence.
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The deputy judge ruled against this contention.
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This argument found favour with the deputy judge .
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The deputy judge refused to admit the document to probate.
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The background facts, as found by the deputy judge , are these.
district
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The district judge refused both applications.
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When prosecutors refused to disclose information about their procedures, a federal district judge dismissed the charges against the five defendants.
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A district judge will decide later the amount of money and interest the musicians must receive from royalties.
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Limits for district judge candidates vary by county population.
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If substituted service by advertisement is required, a draft of the advertisement must be submitted to the district judge to settle.
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She has been competing for three weeks under a temporary restraining order issued April 15 by a federal district judge in Phoenix.
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The district judge must send a copy of the defence to the plaintiff.
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At the same time, some solicitors complained of inconsistencies in approach by High Court masters and district judges .
■ VERB
appoint
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She was later appointed a skating judge .
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The same would be true if Clinton responds by scaring women about a flood of pro-life Dole-\#appointed judges .
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John Devaux, who became a Recorder and head of chambers in 1989, has been appointed a circuit judge .
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Federal judges are appointed , while state judges are elected.
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A Recorder who has served for five years may be appointed as a Circuit judge .
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At the age of thirty, 1vo was appointed diocesan judge and proved himself to be incorruptible.
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There is only the fairness of what politically appointed election officials or politically appointed judges decide.
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Four years later, she was appointed supervising judge in Manhattan, where she heard more than 20, 000 cases.
ask
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Gordon Middleton and Alan Hill are asking a judge to overturn a ruling by magistrates.
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Today at Aylesbury Crown Court they asked a judge to quash those convictions.
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Though she has filed for divorce, Anne Mirretti, 38, asked the judge to have pity on her husband.
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Children of any age can now ask a judge to decide where they should live under the new Children's Act.
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But, in addition, Weeks' lawyers asked the judge to award them $ 3. 8 million in fees.
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When asked by the judge if she ever drank or got aggressive.
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Prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence him to 1 years in prison.
decide
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Should not judges be able to decide what award is justified?
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The judge already has decided to ban from the courtroom not only video cameras but print photographers working for newspapers and magazines.
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A judge deciding McLoughlin might think it unjust to require compensation for any emotional injury.
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A federal judge will decide whether the miles should be considered as assets and confiscated under forfeiture laws.
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A judge has decided the youngster should remain with her former foster parents until the case can be heard in full next year.
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It would have toughened the system by allowing prosecutors, rather than judges , to decide when to try children as adults.
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There is only the fairness of what politically appointed election officials or politically appointed judges decide .
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And the judge may then decide not to sit.
hear
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Within care centres public law cases may be heard by designated family judges or nominated care judges.
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The cases are due to be heard together before a judge in London without a jury, in January.
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We hear of judges being bribed, and occasionally overt bribery does occur.
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After any other party has been heard the judge should give his formal ruling.
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In addition, all charges against self-confessed drug traffickers would in future be heard by the same judge .
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She was in court to hear the judge order a retrial.
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Mr Ward returned to court in the morning to hear the judge award him his costs.
order
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A federal judge ordered Bher reinstated.
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The judge Tuesday ordered to vacate the stay.
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Some judges have imposed such orders to deal with aggressive protesters who push and shove patients and scream in their faces.
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Read in studio A judge has ordered a fish farm to compensate a group of anglers for ruining their fishing season.
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The judge then ordered the lead plaintiffs' lawyer in the class-action suit to conduct an investigation.
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But Vargas said the strengthened designation might make a judge more reluctant to order the cross razed.
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As early as today a federal judge could order Napster to halt users from downloading copyrighted music.
rule
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The High Court in turn sought a ruling from the Luxembourg judges .
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No matter, ruled the judge .
tell
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It is believed Stavridis told the judge in a behind-closed-doors grilling that the pilot was directing him from shore.
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After all, such lopsided enthusiasm indicates that you feel well equipped to tell judges how to do their jobs.
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I am sorry about what happened ... He told the judge that he would not be instructed for the retrial.
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So they told the judges that we, the staff, had to stop the strikes.
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He wanted to tell the judge how to deal with me, but fortunately the judge was more understanding.
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Then I told the judge I was sorry we had to present this painful case to him, and I sat down.
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She kept a secret diary which revealed that he spoke on average 3.5 words a day, she told a divorce judge .
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It takes a minimum of three appearances to actually tell the judge your story.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
judge/consider etc sth on its (own) merits
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Judge Butler gave the defendant a six-month jail sentence.
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Judge Pamela Gifford
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a judge 's controversial decision
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Everyone stood up as the judge entered the courtroom.
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The judge advised the governor that the law violated the First Amendment rights of teachers.
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There are normally three judges for the national essay competition.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A New York judge awarded custody of the boy to Leo in 1994 and allowed Heard to see him every other weekend.
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All that will be considered by the judge and the Lord Chief Justice in making their recommendations.
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But in an entire career, I never knew a judge who I believed was bribed by raw money.
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Secondly, that any delay which did occur was reasonable and, as indeed the judge himself found, justifiable.
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The court cases discussed indicate how judges have been resolving conflicts on these issues.
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The other judges, both charisma-free, were handpicked to make him shine.
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When it was over, the judges signed a certificate saying that they believed Harrison had indeed told them everything he knew.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
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It is, unfortunately, impossible in the absence of any real evidence to judge how much.
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It is also likely to be unpolished and you need to judge how well it will travel.
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Transit A method used in racing to judge how near the start line you are.
■ NOUN
book
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So, in the case of loose-leaf reference, it's vital that you judge the book by its cover.
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How difficult it is to judge a book by its cover, the old saying goes.
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To judge from this book , the most surprising thing about the paper is that it did not collapse long ago.
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Appearances are often deceiving and we all know the dangers of judging a book by its cover.
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Never judge a book by its cover, she might have reflected, had she not been so breathless with excitement.
court
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C., by proposing legislation to cut the court back to 11 judges .
criteria
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The reader's criteria for judging articles will vary accordingly.
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Fact 3: Criteria are lacking for judging the product a failure.
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There are, though, three or four fundamental criteria for judging advertisements which can be applied more or less universally.
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It runs a League, and is involved in establishing criteria for judging standards for a series of compulsory figures.
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The immediate objective End Result: To have agreed criteria for judging Bill's performance as a supervisor.
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As a consequence of their different interpretations, they had different criteria for judging attainment.
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We will draw upon these criteria inPart Two in judging the various strategies of evaluation.
merit
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Scriven has charged evaluators with the responsibility for judging the merit of an educational practice.
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Underlying their arguments is the idea that everyone should be judged on merit .
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How, I wondered, was I going to find some one to judge the merit of this work objectively?
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Your ideas will be judged for their merit , rather than in deference to your position.
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The extent of government involvement in such projects should be judged on individual merit , he said.
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The application will not be judged on merit .
merits
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And, of course, I realise that when I bring forward proposals they will have to be judged on their merits .
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The lawyer said she was entitled to be judged on her own merits and not those of her father.
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Voters will need to know enough about the candidates to be able to judge their relative merits .
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Their arguments have to be judged on their merits .
performance
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How will my customers judge the performance ?
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The immediate objective End Result: To have agreed criteria for judging Bill's performance as a supervisor.
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Why is it an important input to setting objectives and judging enterprise performance ?
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Purchasers and providers are now judged by performance indicators.
quality
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Put yourselves in the client's position: what would you judge as a quality , desirable service?
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Every country must finally be judged by the quality of justice it delivers to its people.
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The instrument maker knows how to choose his materials, and can judge their qualities and defects.
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In addition, it can be difficult to judge the quality of some merchandise from a photo on a Web page.
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Yet the headmistress believes it's a poor way to judge quality .
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They judge for themselves the quality and character of the political leaders who parade before them on television seeking their support.
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Consumers judge quality by comparing the service they receive against expectations of what they should receive.
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One of the problems facing practitioners is judging the quality of a piece of research.
standard
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That is judging by ordinary residential standards .
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One last item: you can't judge accommodation standards by holiday price.
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The situation has clarified into an endgame which, judged by traditional material standards , should be level.
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It runs a League, and is involved in establishing criteria for judging standards for a series of compulsory figures.
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But the survey showed that it was difficult to judge whether standards of spelling were going up or down.
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Representatives of the central government were required to judge whether or not these standards had been achieved.
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What is in the best interests of the patient will be judged by the standards of a responsible body of medical opinion.
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One day in two, judged by federal standards , the soft California air is not fit to breathe.
success
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Watch the changes in their management philosophies to judge their future success .
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Regardless of technical hitches Pathfinders in Space was judged a great success , leading to a second series being commissioned in 1960.
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He judges success by how effectively human needs are reconciled with the needs of the ecosystem.
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The scheme was judged to be a success and extended to all secondary schools in April 1986.
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Local Management of Schools will be judged a success if it has been up and running reasonably well since 1 April 1990.
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We judge the success of a contract by the volume of trades conducted in it.
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If the New Deal is judged by its economic success alone, then the verdict must be a mixed one.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Judging from Monday night's game, the team still has a lot of work to do.
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2,000 foreign and local monitors were watching to judge whether the elections were free and fair.
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A photograph of a stormy beach was judged "best in show" by the panel.
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Bridget, you shouldn't judge people like that.
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Dillon and two other writers judged the poetry contest.
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Don't judge other people unless you want to be judged yourself.
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Dwight judged it dangerous to navigate in darkness in these waters.
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He seems like a nice guy, but it's too early to judge .
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How do you judge when a house needs a new roof?
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I have a hard time judging ages, but the baby looked about six months old.
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It's difficult to judge whether this is the right time to tell him.
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Kaldor judged that the moment was exactly right to call an election.
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Pupils were judged in two categories: age 6 to 8, and age 9 to 12.
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She should do what seems right to her. It isn't for me to judge .
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Some students may judge that the benefits they receive from further education are less than the costs of that education.
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The annual flower show was judged by a TV celebrity and a professional horticulturist.
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The changes should be judged by their results.
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What right does she have to judge me?
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Who's judging the talent contest?
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Women judged to be at high risk for breast cancer should be examined every year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He did Human Figure Drawings, which were judged impoverished.
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If we totally loved ourselves, we would not feel the need to judge others.
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Of that number, approximately 20 percent were eventually judged unfavorable by the Applicant Review Panel.
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Seems extraordinary, but judging from the hardback sales, his fan club is as big as ever.
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Skating is rife with bias, carrying the inherent subjectivity of judging to extremes.
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The instrument maker knows how to choose his materials, and can judge their qualities and defects.