In no event should you judge its performance over anything less than five years.

It is important to judge over a period of time rather than take a snapshot, as seems to be the case at the moment.

Still, he said, he wants investors to judge him over a two-year period, not week to week.

Judging by further claims and disputes over the years, the area must have been valued.

"Sir," Harrison said, "we can judge real speed over the bottom based on our inertial navigation system."

Many, if not most, appeals judges show a pattern to their judging over time.

As always, it was difficult to judge the uphill putt over a kind of step.

"But there have been some business realities I've had to judge over the last couple years where we've had to make some choices."

They also enforced the law and judged local disputes, especially over land, the principal source of wealth.

You're judging me over something I haven't even done yet.