Ability to make good judgments

Usage examples of judgement.

Queen Victoria had ever called an urgent meeting of her counsellors, and ordered them to invent the equivalent of radio and television, it is unlikely that any of them would have imagined the path to lead through the experiments of Ampere, Biot, Oersted and Faraday, four equations of vector calculus, and the judgement to preserve the displacement current in a vacuum.

When we have done evil it is because we have been worsted by our baser side--for a man is many--by desire or rage or some evil image: the misnamed reasoning that takes up with the false, in reality fancy, has not stayed for the judgement of the Reasoning-Principle: we have acted at the call of the less worthy, just as in matters of the sense-sphere we sometimes see falsely because we credit only the lower perception, that of the Couplement, without applying the tests of the Reasoning-Faculty.

They charged further that you were behaving as a king, whilst styling yourself a duke, in these places by conducting criminal trials, rendering judgement without juries and executing sentences of death.

But as the Biter rolled away from them, exposing her weedy larboard side, four of her guns were fired almost simultaneously, and by luck or judgement they caught the roll just right.

More than this, even when this decision does not seem enough to warrant the exemption of us Inquisitors from the duty of trying witches, still we are unwilling to consider that we are legally compelled to perform such duties ourselves, since we can depute the Diocesans to our office, at least in respect of arriving at a judgement.

He seemed to me to have enough on his plate, what with the rushing wind and the small fires and the Day of Judgement, without having an argument with Dunster to contend with.

The next day it was proclaimed that the Folkmoot for Judgement should be held on the morning following, for already five hundred of the headmen had come in, and that was by custom deemed the least number which might count as a full meeting of the Folk.

If he had not made this apology for the rash judgement of his youthful days, he would not have enjoyed, in Italy at all events, that immortality which is so justly his due.

I ought to have such a good opinion of myself as to sit in judgement over him, with the intention of giving my sentence against him?

Now they were almost pathetically eager to pour out their grievances to him, like petitioners at a tribal indaba where cases were heard and judgement handed down by the elders of the tribe.

But her invalidism did not limit her zest for conversation, gossip, and judgements shrewd and sharp -- and it must be said, witty -- upon people and circumstances.

Whereas his Master has habits of mind as ingrained as his routine with his watch and snuffbox, Jacques does not reach for hasty judgements but is prepared to wait upon events.

It is, we read, the Soul that has entered into the service of that in which soul-evil is implanted by nature, in whose service the unreasoning phase of the Soul accepts evil--unmeasure, excess and shortcoming, which bring forth licentiousness, cowardice and all other flaws of the Soul, all the states, foreign to the true nature, which set up false judgements, so that the Soul comes to name things good or evil not by their true value but by the mere test of like and dislike.

I shall indulge your impertinence in view of the singular circumstances that apparently cloud your judgement, and thus condescend to remind you that the Corpse Privilege numbers among the hereditary seigneurial rights.

And I should hate to take Sook to task for her bad judgement as well as her laxity in letting you aboard.