These registries usually require a studbook selection process involving judging of an individual animal's quality, performance, and conformation before registration is finalized.

Entries that take advantage of some loophole in the rules ( whether or not they pass a final round of judging ) can cause the rules for the following year's contest to be adjusted accordingly ( although often other subtle loopholes are deliberately introduced in the process ).

While few types of mead are available, all are home-brewed and go through a rigorous judging process.

The Peabody Awards judging process is unusually rigorous.

They created an analytical judgment methodology to replace the human judging process that was criticized in past experiments, and they released a report in 1996.

The mayor then suggests that Ill make things easier on everyone and shoot himself, but Ill refuses, insisting that the town must go through the process of actually judging and then killing him.

The American Kennel Club describes this as a " significant factor and a critical part of the judging process.

To distinctly be categorized as an ' Award ', rather than some other type of ceremonial or arbitrary recognition, there should be a clear process of nominations, award criteria and appropriate judging process.

A major grievance against the selection process, however, was the subjectivity of evaluation of entries, with no clear criteria for judging.

Considered within the broadest horizon, there is little reason to imagine that the process of judging a work, that leads to a predication of false or true, is necessarily amenable to formalization, and it may always remain what is commonly called a judgment call.

Choice consists of the mental process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one or more of them.

Faults are evaluated as part of the judging process in conformation shows.

PEAR created an analytical judgment methodology to replace the human judging process that was criticized in past experiments.

Finally, when Pogorelić did not reach the final fourth stage, Martha Argerich ostentatiously left the jury, announcing that she felt ashamed for having taken part in the judging process.

At the award of the 2006 prizes, Cormac McCarthy's publisher commented positively on the selection process noting that, in the absence of a sponsor and literary or media figures amongst the judging panel, the decision is made by "... students and professors, whose only real agenda can be great books and great writing ".

This process of judging auspicious or harmful signs present in the natural world was accepted into Japanese society as a technique for predicting good or bad fortune in the human world.

Choice consists of the mental process of thinking involved with the process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one of them for action.

In J. Randy Taraborrelli's book Madonna: An Intimate Biography, she said that the main inspiration behind " Nothing Really Matters ", and " The Power of Good-bye " from the same album, was other people judging and dissecting her creative process.

In 2006, Barber was one of the judges for the Turner Prize and wrote an article in The Observer critical of some aspects of the judging process.

For 2006, the judging process had two stages with Charles Wilson as Chairman of the Judges.

AFIA has also been castigated for narrow selection of artists for award nominations and an unfair judging process.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

For Kant " enjoyment " is the result when pleasure arises from sensation, but judging something to be " beautiful " has a third requirement: sensation must give rise to pleasure by engaging our capacities of reflective contemplation.

It is what a thing means or symbolizes for us that is often what we are judging.

As a result, it could be argued that there is a moral imperative for an agent to inform himself as much as possible about a situation before judging the appropriate course of action.

: And the One Hundred and Fifty most religious Bishops, actuated by the same consideration, gave equal privileges ( ἴσα πρεσβεῖα ) to the most holy throne of New Rome, justly judging that the city which is honoured with the Sovereignty and the Senate and enjoys equal privileges with the old imperial Rome, should in ecclesiastical matters also be magnified as she is, and rank next after her.

There is a general misconception about scoring and judging.

The score is computed similarly to the scores from other diving events, but has been modified starting with the 2012 London Olympics for the use of the larger judging panels.

It is important to distinguish between the act of judging and the judgment itself, the act of counting and the number itself, and so on.

Ethnocentrism is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture.

An expert (, also called cognoscente ) is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain.

The tribunal itself, or the judge, can in some systems call upon experts to technically evaluate a certain fact or action, in order to provide the court with a complete knowledge on the fact / action it is judging.

And the One Hundred and Fifty most religious Bishops ( i. e. the second ecumenical council in 381 ) actuated by the same consideration, gave equal privileges to the most holy throne of New Rome, justly judging that the city which is honored with the Sovereignty and the Senate, and enjoys equal privileges with the old imperial Rome, should in ecclesiastical matters also be magnified as she is.

In judging of the welfare of the slaves, it is necessary to distinguish the different conditions of slavery.

" Fire is both a substance and a motivator of change, it is active in altering other things quantitatively and performing an activity Heraclitus describes as " the judging and convicting of all things.

Certainly, there is a growing trend toward judging a state's domestic actions in the light of international law and standards.

:::"... my liking for painting and my practice in judging it have arrived at such point when any work is brought before me, either of deceased artists or of those of the present day, without the names being told me, I say on the spur of the moment that is the work of such and such a man.

Despite its appearance, the Germanic name is not derived from the Latin name, judging from the change from earlier o into a, which is characteristic of the Germanic languages.

The USASF was formed in 2003 by the competition companies to act as the national governing body for all star cheerleading and to create a standard set of rules and judging standards to be followed by all competitions sanctioned by the Federation, ultimately leading to the Cheerleading Worlds.

Divers must qualify at two different competitions, at least one of which must be a level 1 competition, i. e. a competition with fairly strict judging patterns.

Before the competition begins, the host will often bring up a " sacrificial poet ", whom the judges will score in order to calibrate their judging.

The clean and press was once a competition lift, but was discontinued due to difficulties in judging proper form.

In most competitions, including all those that subscribe to the BJCP style guidelines, as well as the International Mead Fest, the term " traditional mead " refers to this variety ( because mead is historically a variable product, these guidelines are a recent expedient, designed to provide a common language for competition judging ; style guidelines per se do not apply to commercial or historical examples of this or any other type of mead.

Preliminary judging of this event for " Conventional Steel Bands " has been recently moved to the individual pan yards where steel bands practice their selections for the competition.

In 1818 the French Academy of Sciences launched therefore a competition to explain the properties of light, where Poisson was one of the members of the judging committee.

Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger attends the judging for the under 200 pound class in order to scope out who his competition will be for the overall Mr. Olympia title, jokingly disparaging Columbu.

The celebrations include an annual fireworks display and a car judging competition.

In this annual competition, homebrewers submit their brew to a series of judging and taste tests with the chance to see their creation in larger-scale production and sold on store shelves as part of a Samuel Adams mixed 6-pack the following year.

In competition, one of the adjudicators grades a band on how creative their scores are and how well they fit the piping-this aspect of the judging is known as ' ensemble '.

Immediately after the second series of Pop Idol, the same set was used to host World Idol, in which winners of various Idol series around the world, including original Pop Idol winner Will Young, American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson and Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian, competed in a one-off competition, complete with a large judging panel featuring one judge from each country ( Simon Cowell officially representing American Idol, with Pete Waterman the " official " UK judge ).

They were scored second overall by the judging panel but again the public vote was less favourable and they were amongst the four teams eliminated in the first round of the competition.

The final judging of the competition took place with a public performance of the short-listed pieces on 30 April 2008.

After the competition, the French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne admitted she had been pressured by the head of her federation, Didier Gailhaguet, into awarding the long program to the Russians and a judging controversy quickly blew up.

Another popular competition is Horse judging.

Kumite can be used to develop a particular technique or a skill ( e. g. effectively judging and adjusting one's distance from one's opponent ) or it can be done in competition.

The next day at the county fair, in the midst of a livestock judging competition, Mary Ann gives Devlin a box that supposedly contains the money.

In 2004 at the American Homebrewer's Association's National Homebrew Conference in Las Vegas, a pruno competition and judging was held.

Lending her musical knowledge to others, Biedermann served a member of the judging panel of reality television competition series Star Search and Stars auf Ice in 2003 and 2006, respectively.

On the basis of it, he was invited to take up the job of judging the eisteddfod's bardic competition, with the prize being awarded to Taliesin, the son of the famous Welsh nationalist and Druid, Iolo Morganwg.

In equitation competition, flat classes ( those that do not including jumping ) include judging at the walk, trot, and canter in both directions, and the competitors may be asked to ride without stirrups.

The host university arranges all judging and is not allowed in the competition.