Steve was respected and highly esteemed for his knowledge, judgment, and values.
Rushdie's summary judgments of esteemed predecessors included low scores for The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen and Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.
By removing the "resistance," "counterweight," or "hindrance" to the moral law that self-conceit presents, the moral feeling of respect is, in the judgment of reason, "esteemed equivalent to a positive furthering of [the moral law's] causality" (CPrR 5 75).
But others were gentler, noting that, when he died, he was "with one exception, the oldest Wall Street speculator" and emphasizing that "his judgment in banking was highly esteemed, and he was often consulted by prominent bankers".
It is with great sadness that we note the untimely passing of our esteemed colleague and good friend whose medical judgment and compassionate care served as a role model for all of us.
The consequences of this judgment will dramatically affect the progression of our esteemed medical workforce and society as a whole.
The question is not whether the esteemed court is competent to gauge the "collective conscience of the society" but whether that conscience, whatever it might be, should influence the court's judgment in the first place.
That is esteemed company.
I esteemed the Abdication.
For example, in the recent same-sex marriage decision, Scalia said that "except as limited by a constitutional prohibition agreed to by the people, the states are free to adopt whatever laws they like, even those that offend the esteemed justices' reasoned judgment.
