How you conduct negotiations from there is largely a question of individual judgment supported by sound professional advice.
"I've tried to get away from that kind of individual judgment on all of the players," Riley said.
"Force protection is not an exact science but a series of many, many individual judgments," the official said.
I simply believe that individual judgment is preferable to written standards.
He settled to simply credit it with being a matter of individual judgment.
The problem is all those circumstances that feed into individual judgment don't always get played out in the media.
It is one on which anybody interested in such matters can form an individual judgment.
But life is full of grey areas, places where hard-and-fast rules can't work well, and individual judgment must serve instead.
Even though the challenge is made collectively, the determinations will be individual judgments.
During the course of working on the material over many weeks each publication has formed its own individual judgments about specific stories.