adjudicate
Example Sentences
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The days when dictators could live in gilded exile with fortunes in secret Swiss bank accounts are mostly over, primarily because of global mechanisms for adjudicating human-rights abuses and tracking ill-gotten gains.
He claimed her firing was “for cause,” a term whose precise legal meaning hasn’t been adjudicated but is widely interpreted to connote gross malfeasance or some such offense in office.
Meanwhile, the case was about to reach a United Nations agency that adjudicates copyright disputes.
A White House official told the BBC that all individuals deported have had their asylum claims fully adjudicated before removal.
From BBC
Whoever wins Tuesday could play a decisive role in adjudicating disputes about future elections.
From Washington Post
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