Sentence examples for the adjudicative from inspiring English sources

In this paper I argue that the predictive element of ethics is only related to the adjudicative element in the sense that we adjudicate and predict through language.

But if Sharon and Joseph's roles had been switched, the benefits would have flowed without question: the wives of servicemen were automatically assumed to be their husbands' dependents.The Supreme Court found the discriminatory policy to violate the constitution, but in their decision, a majority of the justices refused to use "strict scrutiny" as the adjudicative standard.

In a rule based ethical system the adjudicative and predictive aspects are the same.

As discussed previously there are two aspects of ethics; the adjudicative aspect and the predictive aspect.

The feedback function of any ethical system then is the adjudicative function.

This case requires that states and the Federal judiciary carefully examine the adjudicative system that permits this to happen.

When the government deprives a citizen of their life, liberty, or property as a consequence of partial judgment, citizens are deprived of what is rightfully theirs without the truly adjudicative proceeding to which they are entitled.

Judge Posner's language strays from the sober and adjudicative: "go figure", he writes at one point.

African customs and traditions, it has been said, have long emphasized mediation, conciliation, and consensus rather than the adversarial and adjudicative procedures that are common to Western legal systems.

In other words, the board debates and votes on ordinances that will govern the town as a whole, the so-called legislative function, and the board also entertains petitions and requests from attending citizens, e.g., requests for zoning variances, the so-called adjudicative function.

However, then there is a second claim of the 'sovereignists', that is that the establishment of supranational, coercive power would mean a competition for final authority – for control of centralised authority – with the nation states.4 The case of the EU shows, as we shall see, that there need not be a struggle for final authority, when the legal basis is the same for all adjudicative bodies.