Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles.
More experienced judges are less apt to treat black and female defendants differently.
The authors, Elliot Slotnick, Sheldon Goldman, and Sara Schiavoni, suggest that the struggle over confirming judges represents an apt metaphor for the Obama Presidency as a whole: modest progress in the face of implacable Republican hostility.
The political scientists who study such things say there is no empirical support for the notion that former judges are more apt to feel constrained by earlier rulings or to suppress their political views.
The deeper action of the Adams operas lies in contemplation, in dissecting the texture of reality -- and therefore, the value -- in lives we are apt to judge too glibly.
In Williams's view, if Gauguin's artistic project fails, we are apt to judge him morally deficient; if his artistic project succeeds, we are likely to see his actions in a more favorable moral light.
Quotes were identified to illustrate participants' views, where these were judged to be particularly apt and succinct.
If so, we would have to judge that his belief is apt and therefore qualifies as an instance of knowledge.
They were both more likely to take the exam in the first place and to use the kind of cultivated language and analytic reasoning apt to be judged favorably by examiners.
Judging Henry's belief to be apt, Sosa accepts the outcome that Henry knows there is a barn before him.
The characterization of Mr. Repin, at any rate, is apt, as American audiences may judge for themselves on several imminent occasions.
