The phrase "to adjudicate between" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to make an official decision in a dispute or to settle a disagreement between two parties. For example: The judge was asked to adjudicate between the two parties who were arguing over a property dispute.
How were we to adjudicate between the competing claims of "interests" and "values"?
Does the historical evidence allow us to adjudicate between these two theories, which come to opposite predictions about the outcome?
The polling evidence we have so far, however, is just not rich enough to adjudicate between these different outcomes.
Liberal societies sometimes have to adjudicate between individual rights on the one hand, and cultural traditions on the other.
We were asked to adjudicate between various scenarios involving, for example, short and painful lives, or longer active lives ending in later years of protracted illness and incapacity.
Some also fear the monarch being drawn into this process, having to adjudicate between two leaders who both have a claim to the keys of No 10.
But if the responses are to help adjudicate between competing theories, the responders must be more or less theoretically neutral, and this sort of neutrality, we suspect, is rather likely to be vitiated by philosophical education.
Nor is there any independent agency, akin to the European Union's commission, to adjudicate disputes between members.
But since the resulting interpretation lacks an overarching structure, it has few theoretical resources to adjudicate conflicts between different values, and it may become quite unclear what the view says about particular difficult cases.
Thus, in Donaldson and Dunfee's ISCT, it is a hypothetical social contract a concept itself embodying Western notions of procedural fairness that is supposed to adjudicate clashes between home country and host country, including Western and non-Western, norms and practices.
One role was to adjudicate disputes between Obama's "team of rivals".
