Sentence examples for joint verdict from inspiring English sources

Ministers had originally set up evaluation machinery that gave a proper role to other stakeholders to help draw up a reasoned joint verdict.

After several stabs at identifying the standard of taste, Hume identifies it as the consensus or "joint verdict" of "true critics" (SOT, 278 79).

"Strong sense, united to delicate sentiment, improved by practice, perfected by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character; and the joint verdict of such, wherever they are to found, is the true standard of taste and beauty" ("Of the Standard of Taste" 1757, 144).

"Without a finding that the artillery attacks were unlawful, the Trial Chamber's conclusion that a joint criminal enterprise existed cannot be sustained," the appeal verdict said.

In a joint statement after Tuesday's verdict the three guards said they "bitterly regret the death of Mr Mubenga, but have always said they were trying to do a very difficult job in difficult circumstances to the best of their ability".

The verdicts follow a joint prosecution by the HSE and the Environment Agency (EA) which they today described as the "biggest and most complex criminal inquiry" they had worked on together.

The two groups issued a joint statement questioning the hastiness of the verdict.

Chief Justice Ernest Sakala, in a joint ruling with four other justices, endorsed the verdict of the Lusaka High Court in 2002 that the soldiers "must be hanged by the neck until pronounced dead".

That same year, Tolhurst filed a lawsuit against Smith and Fiction Records in 1991 over royalties payments, and claimed joint ownership of the name "the Cure" with Smith; the verdict was handed out in September 1994 in favour of Smith.

I much prefer the earlier verdict of an RNLI spokesman, who had categorised the farrago as a "joint training exercise" – that "joint" amusingly suggesting some kind of parity between the RNLI and the Grylls family.

During his verdict, Presiding Judge Alphons Orie characterised the operation as a "joint criminal enterprise" between the military commanders and Mr Tudjman, who died in 1999 while under investigation by the tribunal.