Sentence examples for legitimate judge from inspiring English sources

Sitting, she told the judge, Rodion Kireyev, that she would not stand before him because she did not respect him: he was not a legitimate judge because the proceedings were not criminal but political, she said.

He advocated for a secular state; considering that since religious views are a matter of one's conscience of which one is the sole legitimate judge, "it is evident that the expense of maintaining such worship should be voluntarily borne by those who believe in it" (Condorcet, La Vie de Voltaire (1789), translated and cited in Rowe 1984, 19).

Not only are patients legitimate judges of such concepts, they are the only true source of these outcome measures.

The legitimate judges of visual quality are humans as end users, the opinions of whom can be obtained by subjective experiments.

Also, in The Reader, he poses several questions about justice and the judiciary; is it legitimate to judge actions and crimes that were committed under a different system of law?

"Your concerns are legitimate," the judge said, adding later that the process was only "minimally sufficient".

The only legitimate way to judge the Mets is on their position in relation to the Braves.

Ilya and Vera Politkovskaya issued a statement saying: "We refuse to come to court, refuse to give any kind of testimony, and also refuse to acknowledge as legitimate any of Judge Melekhin's actions in the consideration of this criminal case".

Lastly, to the claim that there is no legitimate way to judge a society's practices "from the outside," critics may reply that we can always ask whether a particular cultural practice works to the advantage or disadvantage of the people within the culture.

More precisely, the Realists claim that the law is rationally indeterminate in the sense that the class of legal reasons i.e., the class of legitimate reasons a judge may offer for a decision does not provide a justification for a unique outcome.

While this was a legitimate interest, the judge said, it was not covered by the environmental laws under which the plaintiffs chose to challenge the project.