noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a moral judgment
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We shouldn't make moral judgements about the way other people live their lives.
judgment day
last judgment
render a decision/opinion/judgment etc
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It is unlikely that the court will render an opinion before November 5.
subjective judgment/opinion etc
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The ratings were based on the subjective judgement of one person.
value judgment
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clinical
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This is what clinical judgment is all about.
final
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This will be a final judgment , but subject to the defendant's right to appeal.
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Mailer presents the final judgment to crucify the young man as political rather than spiritual.
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Only in Rome did both parties feel they could get a final judgment that would be respected.
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He prefers to serve as the objective analyst or loyal adviser rather than the final judgment maker.
following
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Taylor L.J. read the following judgment of the court.
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Lord Taylor of Gosforth C.J. read the following judgment of the court.
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Judge Paul Baker Q.C. read the following judgment .
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The following judgment was handed down.
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The following judgment was delivered in open court in Luxembourg. 1.
good
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Against my better judgment , I asked the record man if he were able to bring impoverished blues singers over to Ireland.
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Happily, Parks also has good judgment and fine people skills.
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Or did Mr Lawson simply let his natural rudeness get the better of his judgment ?
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They also need tact, good judgment , and the ability to establish effective personal relationships to oversee staff.
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There does not have to be a statutory ban - it can be left to the good judgment of the court.
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All you can do is weigh the facts and make your own best judgment .
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In the end, we were seduced by the polls, against our better judgment .
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I have to be loyal to my conscience and my good judgment .
moral
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In discussing deviance here, no moral judgment is implied save in one respect.
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For at the core of its success lies a willingness to trust the spiritual integrity and moral judgment of its parishioners.
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Even if we abandon moral judgment in such cases, the balance of advantage must still be carefully and impartially weighed.
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It is an ethical or moral judgment in the sense that ethos and mores refer to the customary practices of a group.
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There is no reason to re-fight battles over history and moral judgment in this book.
political
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However, senior government figures say that Mr Mandelson's handling of the issue has damaged their faith in his political judgment .
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Answering the first question will depend on political judgment .
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Otherwise, it seems to have regarded it as a matter of political judgment .
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Lebed is intelligent but lacks political experience and judgment .
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The decision whether or not to give directives involves the Home Secretary in making a delicate and difficult political judgment .
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I think that, with Senator Kopp, perhaps a personal relationship interfered with his political judgment .
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Questions of value for money are about political judgment - the judgment of what is value for money.
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Value for money does not remove political judgment - it may well increase the emphasis on it.
poor
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That's no excuse for poor judgment .
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They tend to get disorganized as the mania increases, and even more prone to poor judgment .
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It is a sign of poor judgment at a time when good decisions are critical.
professional
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While you are a patient of mine, however, you must accept my professional judgment .
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Using your professional judgment , not merely doing as Woodhead tells you, is what teachers are paid for.
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People would value lay judgment alongside the professional judgment of information about the inspection of a school.
subjective
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This is usually done by the subjective judgment of the officer concerned.
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Reasonableness, however is a subjective judgment , which in turn can lead to differences of opinion.
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Marking the tests calls for a dangerous amount of subjective judgment .
well
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Against my better judgment , I asked the record man if he were able to bring impoverished blues singers over to Ireland.
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This teaching has led me, against my better judgment , to suspect people of trying to put one over.
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On impulse, and against his better judgment , he pulled off his own mask.
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There you could have made a better judgment .
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Or did Mr Lawson simply let his natural rudeness get the better of his judgment ?
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She talked about the language for some time, seemingly against her better judgment , drawn by his earnest desire to learn.
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Amendments are sometimes accepted by the Government against its better judgment to prevent disruption of the Parliamentary timetable.
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Well , it was against my better judgment .
■ NOUN
court
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Government lawyers have been encouraged by a 1997 Appeal Court judgment preventing the spy George Blake from receiving royalties on his autobiography.
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This disgraceful court judgment rewards Butch Reynolds for cheating.
value
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To make a value judgment by calling something good or bad is to classify it in terms of its reinforcing effects.
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A prescription is a value judgment that indicates what should occur and should be done.
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That is not a value judgment , but a statistical one.
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Inevitably, value judgment plays an important role in this process.
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The court must bear contemporary social standards in mind in making what will in some cases necessarily be a value judgment .
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What the legitimate ambit of a certain power actually is will necessarily be a value judgment .
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But this assumption rests on a contestable value judgment about the proper role of the judiciary in controlling the government.
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Site-specific works invariably manifest a value judgment about the larger context of which they are a part.
■ VERB
based
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My recommendations are no more than guide-lines based on my own judgment and personal preference.
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Answer each question based on your best judgment of what your partner actually does.
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Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest also based his judgment on the nineteenth century jurisprudence.
deliver
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I have already, before delivering this judgment , heard argument about the precise form of the order.
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It is up to the people considering the planning application to deliver a judgment on the assessment.
enter
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The jury would then enter a judgment against Simpson for the dollar amount to be paid in damages.
exercise
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Adjudication officers are employees in the relevant Department but exercise independent judgment on claims in making decisions within their province.
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Often these acts of kindness came from the same men who had grossly failed to exercise judgment on previous occasions.
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Meader found that by any standard, even if one disagrees with their decisions, voters exercised informed judgment and rational choices.
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He also was criticized for failure to exercise good judgment and creating the appearance of partisanship.
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But bureaucrats have scant leeway to exercise judgment .
form
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Catch him in Birmingham tonight and form your own judgment on the supposed heir to Bevan, Foot and Kinnock.
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They will not then defer decision until they form their own judgment .
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Either way no surrender of judgment in the sense of refraining from forming a judgment is involved.
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For there is no objection to people forming their own judgment on any issue they like.
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I am content to let you form your own judgment of my character.
give
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I therefore give judgment for the plaintiff company for the amount claimed.
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The people are being asked to give their own judgment before major governmental decisions are made.
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Although Lord Russell of Killowen gave a dissenting judgment it is felt that that point holds good.
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If I thought it was worth publishing, he would give in to my judgment .
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I have spoken of the three triggers, those stimuli on which Tod's body gives judgment .
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In offering to give up his hard-won judgment , Goldman also volunteered his attorneys for a bit of unanticipated altruism.
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The Court of Appeal sat on 28 October 1991 and gave judgment on 12 November.
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The Court of Appeal affirmed the existence of an implied duty not to prepare to compete and gave judgment for the plaintiffs.
make
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You can make your own judgment as to what he, and others like him, might have totalled today.
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How can a choice be made without making a judgment ?
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We must wait and see what its impact is before making that judgment .
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The body mass index is a convenient measure on which to make this judgment .
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Without making a judgment , what will stop anyone from reading Rod McKuen all his life?
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They made an error in judgment .
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If we think that she is suffering more than the average person, how do we 36 make that judgment ?
obtain
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The owner sued the insurers and obtained judgment in the county court for £5,199.30.
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If you have owed money, you could find that the lender has obtained judgment against you without your knowledge.
pass
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Like everyone else, they will be able to pass judgment by means of the ballot box.
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No longer is it tainted as mystic, for here, with no one passing judgment , no experience is tainted.
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In 1965 an Act was passed which reversed this judgment .
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Managers will often find it difficult not to pass judgment on subordinates automatically.
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They pass judgment on an accused taking into account the gravity of the crime and the circumstances of the accused.
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We had filed suit to pass judgment on Harvester.
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The duty of the court is neither to make nor to alter nor to pass judgment on the law.
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He never passed judgment about the wishes; he just granted them impassively.
read
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Taylor L.J. read the following judgment of the court.
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Lord Taylor of Gosforth C.J. read the following judgment of the court.
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Judge Paul Baker Q.C. read the following judgment .
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However, others have not read the judgment in that way.
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That is what, as I read his judgment , the judge has done here.
referred
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No cases are referred to in the judgment or were cited in argument.
reserve
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Three appeal court judges reserved judgment .
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I think people should reserve judgment .
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Professor Furmston said he would reserve judgment until next week.
set
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In these circumstances, if the trust had been validly set up, then judgment would have to be for the beneficiary.
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For these reasons, and for the reasons set out in the judgment of Balcombe L.J., I would allow this appeal.
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For the reasons set out in the judgment of Staughton L.J. I would reject that contention.
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The facts are set out in the judgment .
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I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment .
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The Court of Appeal set aside that judgment and entered judgment for the defendants on their counterclaim.
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In the Court of Appeal, the judgment below was set aside and judgment was entered for the defendants on their counterclaim.
sit
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Certain Christians have also given the impression that they sit in judgment over others.
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An unforgiving managerial continuum reaching from the father to the oldest remembered paternal relative sits in stony judgment .
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Harrison presented himself and H-1 to the eight commissioners who sat in judgment of his work.
state
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The facts are stated in the judgment of Sir Donald Nicholls V.-C.
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The facts are stated in the judgment .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deliver a judgment/verdict
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After initial indecision, the inquest jury delivered a verdict of lawful killing.
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It is up to the people considering the planning application to deliver a judgment on the assessment.
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Letters delivered a verdict of innocence.
informed decision/choice/judgment etc
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And now supermarkets throughout the country are helping the shopper to make more informed choices.
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As with a question of fact, the more informed judgement could be the mistaken one.
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Information is vital Good information is essential if people are to make informed choices about services.
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Micky Burns from the players' union advises and assists on the options to help them make informed choices about their futures.
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The view is that a consent is not valid unless the patient has enough information to make an informed choice.
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They provide young people with career exploration and counseling so they can make more informed decisions about their academic and occupational goals.
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This brochure empowers sufferers with knowledge to make informed decisions about their headache care.
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Who, we also want students to make well, informed decisions and that there are particular places like the 0.
pass judgment (on sb)
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He never passed judgment about the wishes; he just granted them impassively.
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I used to pass judgment on sight.
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Like everyone else, they will be able to pass judgment by means of the ballot box.
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Managers will often find it difficult not to pass judgment on subordinates automatically.
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No longer is it tainted as mystic, for here, with no one passing judgment, no experience is tainted.
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The duty of the court is neither to make nor to alter nor to pass judgment on the law.
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They pass judgment on an accused taking into account the gravity of the crime and the circumstances of the accused.
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We had filed suit to pass judgment on Harvester.
reserve (your) judgment (on sth)
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I think people should reserve judgment.
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Professor Furmston said he would reserve judgment until next week.
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Three appeal court judges reserved judgment.
sit in judgment (on/over sb)
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Certain Christians have also given the impression that they sit in judgment over others.
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Harrison presented himself and H-1 to the eight commissioners who sat in judgment of his work.
snap judgment/decision
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As I begin to uncover a whole new world myself, I see the folly of that snap judgment.
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Consultation and investigation Having your say Employers should avoid making snap decisions in cases of sickness absence.
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I just made a snap decision that this was where I wanted to be.
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I will not make a snap decision, Lieutenant.
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If the failure occurs higher on the launch, again a snap decision can be fatal.
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Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again.
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So his leave-taking is no snap decision.
suspend judgment
the last judgment
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I trust your judgment , Phyllis.
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The court did not alter the $2,500 judgment .