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Having, characterized by, or done with good judgment or sound thinking.

This criticism needs judicious qualification.

Caussin was sent into Brittany, and the judicious and learned Jesuit, Jacques Sirmond, who succeeded him, kept clear of politics.

The choice was judicious as further events proved.

Owing, however, to timely and judicious disposition of the military and police forces the city was saved from much bloodshed.

Much might be made of Cyrenaica by judicious colonization..

By the judicious selection of a type of yeast it is possible to improve the bouquet, and from an inferior must obtain a better wine or cider than would otherwise be produced.

He appears to have consolidated his power by the aid of the Church and by a series of judicious matrimonial alliances.

Dionysius of Alexandria; compare his judicious verdict on the Apocalypse.

By the judicious arrangements, however, which were made by the duke of Wellington, the peace of the metropolis was secured.

He is, moreover, a judicious critic. The union of these four elements gives character to his theology, and in a certain degree to all subsequent theology.

In the former case the cartographer is merely called upon to reduce and generalize the information given by his originals, to make a judicious selection of place names, and to take care that the map is not overcrowded with names and details.

Thus so-called coloured-gold deposits may be produced by the judicious introduction of suitable impurities.

Judicious training also may be of importance as encouraging the formation of flowers and fruit.

These results are no doubt greatly aided by the judicious stimulus given to the highest effort of the mark system.

Again, the savage universe is no preserve of man, but is an open field wherein human and non-human activities of all sorts compete on more or less equal terms, yet so that a certain measure of predominance may be secured by a judicious combination of forces.

Likewise, don't do negatives or ballistics for everything -- be judicious and throw in perhaps a couple sets per week, alternating muscle groups with each, so that you don't overtrain any one muscle.

Under the judicious regulations of his new tutor a methodical course of reading was marked out, and most ardently prosecuted; the pupil's progress was proportionably rapid.

Norden's work contains many judicious observations on the " different natures of grounds, how they may be employed, how they may be bettered, reformed and amended."

He had a hard head, a splendid constitution, tireless industry, a generally judicious temper.

By the judicious mission of an embassy to Rome he now obtained confirmation of the alliance which his father had previously made with the growing western power; at the same time he availed himself of the weakened state of the Syrian monarchy under Demetrius II.

The compromise with the surviving rebels was arranged by his son in concert with Richard of Cornwall and the legate Ottobuono; the statute of Marlborough (1267), which purchased a lasting peace by judicious concessions, was similarly arranged between Edward and the earl of Gloucester.

So far as practical gardening is concerned, feeding by the roots after they have been placed in suitable soil is confined principally to the administration of water and, under certain circumstances, of liquid or chemical manure; and no operations demand more judicious management.

Judicious and timely thinning so as to allow the trees room to grow, and to give them sufficiency of light and air, will generally obviate the need of the pruning-saw, except to a relatively small extent.

The Peach House is a structure in which the ripening of the fruit is accelerated by the judicious employment of artificial heat.

It has until lately been the practice to remove these to the museum at Naples; but the present tendency is to leave them (and even the movable objects found in the houses) in situ with all due precautions as to their preservation (as in the house of the Vettii, of the Silver Wedding, of the Golden Cupids, &c.), which adds immensely to the interest of the houses; indeed, with the l,eip of judicious restoration, their original condition is in large measure reproduced.'

His wealth was acquired by traffic in slaves, the working of silver mines, and judicious purchases of lands and houses, especially those of proscribed citizens.

Some anomalies, both of metre and of sense, may be removed by judicious emendation; and many lines become smooth enough, if we assume a crasis of open vowels of the same class, or a diphthongal pronunciation of others, or contraction or silence of certain suffixes as in Syriac. The oldest elegiac utterances are not couched in this metre; e.g.

The head is pruned to form six or eight strong offsets; and by judicious use of the knife, and by training, preferably on a hoop placed within them, these are caused to grow outwards and upwards to a height of about 6 ft.

Although barbarous in style, the history of Ducas is both judicious and trustworthy, and it is the most valuable source for the closing years of the Greek empire.

As a careful, judicious and accurate observer, both of man and nature, he had few superiors.

He pandered to the emperor's love of magic and theurgy, and by judicious administration of the omens won a high position at court.

It holds a most judicious balance between the two opposing parties of the time.

There is no Roman writer of satire who could be mentioned along with those others by so judicious a critic, except Juvenal.

But their rule was mostly judicious, and when at last they lost control the ensuing mob-rule soon ruined the country.

By the judicious use of money, however, Alexander got him into his power, so that he was deposed in January 1180.

Until his wife was finally driven from Spain by the revolutionary movement of 1854, the duke is credibly reported to have applied himself to making a large fortune out of railway concessions and by judicious stock exchange speculations.

Prince Schwarzenberg assumed the government of the empire with dictatorial power; and, in spite of what Palmerston termed his " judicious bottle-holding," the movement he had encouraged and applauded, but to which he could give no material aid, was everywhere subdued.

It is, indeed, singularly difficult to pronounce a judicious opinion on the writings of Donne.

Among other less judicious measures, a decree was passed ostensibly directed against all vagabond foreigners, but really aimed at the Jews, large numbers of whom, including many respected landowners and men of business, were imprisoned, or expelled, from Jassy, Bacau and other parts of Moldavia.

Much will depend upon the judicious placing of the gauges.

Biographers have delighted to relate how painfully Demosthenes made himself a tolerable speaker, - how, with pebbles in his mouth, he tried his lungs against the waves, how he declaimed as he ran up hill, how he shut himself up in a cell, having first guarded himself against a longing for the haunts of men by shaving one side of his head, how he wrote out Thucydides eight times, how he was derided by the Assembly and encouraged by a judicious actor who met him moping about the Peiraeus.

Remarkable progress has also been made in the art of queen-rearing, and in improving the common or native bee by judicious crossing with the best foreign races, selected mainly for hardiness, working qualities and the prolific capacity of their queens.

The bee-keeper, therefore, by the judicious application of a little smoke from smouldering fuel, blown into the hive by means of an appliance known as a beesmoker, alarms the bees and is thus able to manipulate the frames of comb with ease and almost no disturbance.

He considers, then, that by a judicious comparison of larval forms with these two easily determinable stages the poverty of existing information on the subject may be gradually, if laboriously, diminished.

It is clear that Munby J did not regard himself as needing to enter into a Thomas v Thomas exercise of judicious encouragement.

You can work out much of these from judicious sniffing of traffic on the network; others you can deduce with some simple heuristics.

The default installation causes the Pippin to hang as the Finder tries to start up so judicious use of the Extensions Manager is required.

Both the ' Report ' and the ' Determination ' show that these ' irregular ordinations ' were indeed preciptate and not judicious.

This is a very gutsy choice, on the part of the performers and/or the producer; yet it is entirely judicious.

So try judicious zapping images in Task manager until you find the root cause, I say again, take care ending processes.