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
Mr. Stanton had sent a letter to Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, asking him to personally ensure that members of the Female Tactical Platoon would have their asylum cases promptly adjudicated through U.S.
From New York Times
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