How to Use judicial in a Sentence

judicial

adjective
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  • The jaws of the judicial system could just never catch up with him.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But for many the truth about his death does not depend on a judicial verdict.
    — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The White House says that it is just getting started and that more judicial appointments are in the works.
    — CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Supporters of the overhaul say that the judicial system in Israel is flawed, and gives too much power to the court.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
  • His lawyers are saying that even using this law against him would require judicial gloss to charge him.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
  • And, of course, these sentences have been approved at the highest judicial levels.
    — NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Climate, the courts kept saying, was not a judicial matter.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Kunis added the intent was not to question the judicial system or the decision made by the jury.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
  • But while their numbers are growing, the protests have yet to come close to matching the scale of the protests opposing his judicial reform plans before the war.
    — Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
  • His warning is almost thrown in as an aside at the very end, like some judicial version of a Marvel post-credits scene.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
  • That’s because judicial elections are unique in that a candidate who wins more than 50 percent of votes in the primary is the winner.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Four months into her tenure, Healey has yet to name a judicial nominee.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
  • In his telling, judicial intervention in the FDA drug-approval process is not a mistake, but a positive good.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The bill is one part of a sweeping package of judicial overhaul measures that would weaken the judiciary.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 11 July 2023
  • Seven months of unrelenting protests failed to quash the judicial overhaul.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 30 July 2023
  • The rulings that the judge made in the case against Lindsey Hill, before it was settled, brought front and center the idea that actually there was no judicial conclusion.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • That, too, was prompt by judicial standards but hardly an example of blazing speed.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Netanyahu faced intense protests this summer over his plans to overhaul the country’s judicial system.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Dufresne’s proposal was in keeping with his judicial views, former staff members told me.
    — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The only way something changes between now and 2030 is if the judicial system — and in particular, the Utah Supreme Court — decides otherwise.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 July 2023
  • The governor’s office did not respond to requests for comment on the judicial track record of the Office of Election Crimes and Security.
    — Lori Rozsa, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2023
  • The rule is common in federal courts and is meant to promote judicial efficiency.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2023
  • But Nik Clark, the president of Wisconsin Carry, argued the answer to gun violence rests with the judicial branch, not the legislative branch.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2023
  • Global warming litigation is still in its infancy, and plainly the judicial system doesn’t quite know what to make of it.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But for more than a decade, the former president has been enmeshed in a witness-tampering scandal in the country’s judicial system.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
  • More news to know now Feinstein's return to the Senate boosted three Biden judicial nominees.
    — USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • Then state judicial officials ordered that bail be set at zero for nearly all misdemeanor crimes and some felonies.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Critics of Netanyahu argue that his insistence on forging ahead with the judicial overhaul stems from his legal woes.
    — Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The letters were not written to question the legitimacy of the judicial system or the validity of the jury’s ruling.
    — Tracy Brown Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The debate over judicial reform pitted two visions of Israel against each other.
    — Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024

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