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Discover LudwigThe phrase "adjudicate over" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct usage would be "adjudicate" without the preposition "over."
Example: "The court will adjudicate the case next week."
Alternatives: "decide on" or "rule on".
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Yet Mr Barr was wrong to think he could adjudicate over the criminality of those acts.
It is grotesque, for instance, to see Rwanda stirring up trouble again in its ravaged neighbour while having the current right to adjudicate over intervention in Syria.
Philosopher Roger Trigg, in his book Religion and Public Life, cites the example of US courts that felt they could not legitimately adjudicate over the genuineness of the Church of the New Song, a religion founded in the 1970s by an inmate of an American federal jail, which apparently required prisoners to be served Harvey's Bristol Cream and steak every Friday at 5pm.
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The claims have not been substantiated and have yet to be adjudicated over.
After her father's death, she found herself on the ancestral turf adjudicating over marital disputes among local villagers as if they were her serfs.
Personally, I don't see much to be gained any more from adjudicating over who is or isn't allowed to call themselves a feminist.
In the first case of the Court of Appeal adjudicating over the settlement of a same-sex partnership, actor Don Gallagher, who played Bernadette on stage in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, was ordered to give up £300,000 to ex-partner Peter Lawrence, a City high-flier.
"If you take the longer view of history — I'm not talking just 15 years, I'm talking 40 years or even 100 years — I can't help but think that the uniqueness of man-woman marriage will be adjudicated over time," said Andrew T. Walker, 27, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
Previously it was the academic community who adjudicated over quality in UK HEIs (Brown & Carasso, 2013).
The deal was dubbed the antitrust case of the decade, and it was the first time a court has adjudicated over a vertical merger since cell phones were invented, and thus changed the media and distribution landscape.
Last month's pay, due on 16 December, was received on 4 January - the day the SPL sub-committee adjudicated over the dispute , ordering the club to comply to a number of orders, including timely delivery of January's salaries.
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