adjudicate

in a sentence

But the septa could not have known that today's court would be anything but the usual tedious business of hearing petitions, settling disputes between rival holdfasts, and adjudicating the placement of boundary stones.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996

And this part"—he pointed at the letter, although everyone else was at the table, several feet away, and he was in his usual spot on the stairs—"this part, where they say, 'render all such materials for our adjudication,' that means you have to turn over all the stuff you bought and they'll decide if they're going to fine you or not" The rest of the family looked at Luke in amazement.†  (source) Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Hidden, 1998

Though not lawyers, these men presented cases and then adjudicated them.†  (source) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994

And also I will embody your name in my offeecial report when matter is finally adjudicated.†  (source) Rudyard Kipling, Kim, 1901

This could happen when two laws contradict each other or during the adjudication of a single law.†  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

I remembered how he had appeared to all of us: like a descending angel—a tiny but fiery god, sent to adjudicate the errors of our ways.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

He was adjudicator for a supply of cider to the hospital at Neufchatel; Monsieur Guillaumin promised him some shares in the turf-pits of Gaumesnil, and he dreamt of establishing a new diligence service between Arcueil and Rouen, which no doubt would not be long in ruining the ramshackle van of the "Lion d'Or," and that, travelling faster, at a cheaper rate, and carrying more luggage, would thus put into his hands the whole commerce of Yonville.†  (source) Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1856

Yet they are considered as more or less obscure and equivocal until their meaning is ascertained by a series of discussions and adjudications.†  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

One of the adjudicators from Toronto praised Stephen profusely, both as a choir leader and as a pianist, and the newspaper reported, "Stephen Nakane—a young man with a future."†  (source) Joy Kogawa, Obasan, 1981

We ultimately got Charlie's case transferred to juvenile court, where the shooting was adjudicated as a juvenile offense.†  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

But within a year, California probation authorities ordered him to return to Los Angeles because he was on probation following his adjudication as a ward of the court for a prior offense.†  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

The child in the bedroom, listening simultaneously to the domestic idiom of his Irish home and the official idioms of the British broadcaster while picking up from behind both the signals of some other distress, that child was already being schooled for the complexities of his adult predicament, a future where he would have to adjudicate among promptings variously ethical, aesthetical, moral, political, metrical, sceptical, cultural, topical, typical, post-colonial and, taken all together, simply impossible.†  (source) Seamus Heaney, Crediting Poetry, 1995

He also took a list of recommended names of teachers from the adjudicator with letters of reference to each.†  (source) Joy Kogawa, Obasan, 1981