"powers of judgment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to someone's ability to make decisions or judgments. Example: "His powers of judgment were highly praised, as he was able to make sound decisions even under immense pressure."
Every province ought to have one such university, whose central task would be the formation of willpower and powers of judgment and categorization.
In inviting him, the university didn't surrender its powers of judgment: his monologue of sophistry and lies was preceded by hard truths.
Robert Pippin, the chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at Chicago and a critic of Strauss, told me, "Strauss believed that good statesmen have powers of judgment and must rely on an inner circle.
UNESCO, the international body that has been given the powers of judgment over what sites on this planet constitute our "world heritage," has denounced these incidents of vandalism as "acts of barbarism".
Every day, it seems, in whatever sphere of existence one points to, we are confronted with powerful evidence that the rate and the manner in which these machines spew forth data--and possibility--have seduced us into surrendering the powers of judgment and instinct which allow us to control them wisely.
Hence, in these cases, the individual should alienate his powers of judgment to those who are more qualified.
I am inclined to go along with the suggestion of the title in Thanissaro Bhikkhu's recent essay in Tricycle magazine: "The Power of Judgment: Judgmental Is Bad, Judicious Is Good".
Concealed behind his London uniform of bowler hat and rolled umbrella, he exercised a patient, curious eye, detecting clues to character with an outsider's power of judgment.
"We often become aware in our opponents, just as we do in our patients, that their power of judgment is very noticeably influenced affectively, in the sense of being diminished," he writes.
On the other hand, it cannot be dismissed, either, by anyone who has ever helplessly felt his own power of judgment being sapped by a strong emotion — as who of us hasn't?
They developed a list of 28 words that were rated on a scale from 1 (not insulting) to 7 (highly insulting), and divided them into categories (relating to defamations of the referee's power of judgment, intelligence, appearance, sexual orientation or genitals).
