But he did not think it would be responsible for a president to launch an invasion of another country just based on a "preliminary judgment."

An example of an adjudicator is a person who makes a preliminary judgment as to an unemployment insurance claim.

Judge Sklaver made a preliminary judgment of neglect against whoever the child's parents might be.

Several days ago Earth Enterprises had demanded a report, a preliminary judgment, a few words to indicate what was going on.

A lawsuit was filed against the property owners to protect the open space, and the courts preliminary judgment was reached on March 28, 2008.

Many observers have taken the six-month anniversary of Boris Johnson's election to pass preliminary judgment on his mayoralty.

In effect, the procedure is a preliminary judgment that challenges the defendants to produce, at the trial's next phase, evidence that exonerates them.

Petrocelli won a dismissal of the case after Fields had won a $200 million preliminary judgment but was forced to recuse himself.

But it was Mr. Giuliani himself who offered the first preliminary judgment on the questions raised by the flawed competition for the lucrative contracts.

The preliminary judgment is another hopeful sign that the barrage will receive government approval and could within the decade be feeding electricity into the national grid.

A preliminary judgment by the trade organization in March largely supported Washington's view that the preference unfairly restricts American companies' access.

The banning is to take place because, in the agency's preliminary judgment, the substance poses a cancer risk if one is exposed to it over a lifetime.

By 21 December the CIA had made a "preliminary judgment" that "al Qaeda appeared to have supported the attack," with no "definitive conclusion."

This included the "preliminary judgment" that al Qaeda was responsible, with the caveat that no evidence had yet been found that Bin Ladin himself ordered the attack.

For the first time, the service is now issuing so-called private letter rulings, or preliminary judgments on questionable tax issues, before the agency has come out with its final regulatory interpretation.

Clinton did not think it would be wise to launch an attack based on a "preliminary judgment," stating that he would have taken further action had he received definitive intelligence.

Preliminary judgment on the cause of death: broken spinal cord and massive brain damage, Officer Smith placed a sheet over the body and motioned to the men with a stretcher.

But if House negotiators prevail, courts will not be allowed to make a preliminary judgment about whether the case presents serious legal issues and will be barred from even hearing many serious cases.

Now, Specter said by telephone: "Since I found out about the baseball deal, I've asked my antitrust people to do research to confirm my preliminary judgment that it's an antitrust violation.

Since the taped trials are handled much like the live ones, they can serve as evidence for a preliminary judgment of the so-called Court TV, which promises "to teach you about our legal system," is up to.

Working quietly, in small groups, she said, specially trained school-based committees of administrators, parents and teachers, could have been asked to review the status of each school and make preliminary judgments about their ability to open.

But in a preliminary judgment in late March, the World Trade Organization largely endorsed Washington's position, which is that the quota system unfairly restricts the American companies' access to the European market.

A CIA official told us that the CIA's analysts chose the term "preliminary judgment" because of their notion of how an intelligence standard of proof differed from a legal standard.

Dr. J.G. de Casparis, a scholar of ancient Indonesian writing, gave the preliminary judgment that the style of the script might date from an earlier period such as the 10th or 11th century.

Two months ago, Brazil won a preliminary judgment against the United States at the World Trade Organization in a case involving subsidies to American cotton growers; another pending claim, against the European Union, concerns sugar.

At this point, some preliminary judgements will be made.

In a July 9 preliminary judgement, Swain denied Dish's request to set aside the issue of copyright violation, ruling that Dish's argument lacked specificity.