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23 examples of Referees in a sentence

And there, it was reviewed by five independent referees, and it was published.
The daffodils were blooming, but the referees were not blowing the whistle when I was telling them to.
I mean, do you know how many times she's had to remind me not to clothesline the referees at my kid's soccer games?
One of the referees who refereed the paper said, "It's too good to be true," which was not very nice.
He cannot control the referees or the performance of Russia’s national team, the Sbornaya, which is ranked 70th in the world – the lowest-seeded team in the tournament.
The code of conduct on the field – where we expect players to give their all under clear rules that are swiftly enforced by independent referees – is fundamentally the same as what we expect from governing bodies off the field.
A recent study of grant programs in Canada found that when referees are trained to recognize gender discrimination, funding outcomes naturally rebalance.
Elections are meaningful only if they are perceived to be free and fair, which requires independent referees.
And, in the venerable country said by Marx to be the political nation par excellence, politics is becoming a subspecies of soccer, with its teams, fans, referees, and high scorers.
The bodies that fund and publish research are now asking specialist referees and authors to declare all such connections, in case these might seem to affect their scientific judgement.
Before a match, referees (who double as Shinto priests) purify the seaweed, salt, and sake.
We rely on external referees for promoting basic scientists, who publish their work in national or international journals.
When globalization has no rules or referees, the bullies will always win.
What makes this issue so central to football’s future is that these errors do not result from referees’ negligence, inattentiveness, or incompetence.
This procedure would give the referees on the field the opportunity, if necessary, to overrule their initial decisions.
After all, the US National Basketball Association employs three referees on a playing surface one-ninth the size of a football field.
These measures – and many others that include the overdue use of available technology – would augment the effectiveness of often-clueless referees, whose authority has declined sharply with the proliferation of decisive mistakes in major games and championships.
Above all, referees must be accountable for their decisions.
In the public square of old, journalists and editors served as gatekeepers and acted as referees.
Political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have described how authoritarian rulers strangle democracy by rewriting the rules and capturing the referees.
The referees at once gave it as their decided opinion that the business could not be legally proceeded with, under the letter W., and in all probability it would have stood over for one day at least, had it not been for the prompt, though, at first sight, undutiful behaviour of Sam, who, seizing his father by the skirt of the coat, dragged him to the counter, and pinned him there, until he had affixed his signature to a couple of instruments; which, from Mr. Weller's habit of printing, was a work of so much labour and time, that the officiating clerk peeled and ate three Ribstone pippins while it was performing.
We know who it is and so do our opponents, but the referees and stakeholder would take no notice of that.
No doubt the point might be submitted to the referees, but I cannot doubt that they would have to give it against you."