judges
juh jiz
- n a book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges
- n a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
- n an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
- v determine the result of (a competition)
- v form a critical opinion of
- v judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- v pronounce judgment on
- v put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
- Twenty years ago an organizational meeting of the nation's black judges could have been held in the back of a single bus.
- The judges, Mahmoud Mekky and Hesham El Bastawissi, face possible expulsion from the bench after calling for the independence of Egypt's judiciary and protesting ballot fraud .
- Popular protests forced the government to reinstate sacked judges, but the compromise has not resolved the power struggle that threatens to distract Islamabad from fighting .