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intermediary
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  • The girl, it turned out, was an unwitting intermediary between two communities, a human sacrifice who allowed the festivities to go forward with no uttered ill will.†   (source)
  • IN THE WAKE of the Soweto student uprising, I learned that Winnie, along with my old friend and physician, Dr. Nthato Motlana, had become involved with the Black Parents Association, an organization of concerned local professionals and church leaders who acted as a guiding hand and intermediary for the students.†   (source)
  • Many people make somewhat similar estimates, and are surprised to learn that only five intermediaries will — on average — suffice.†   (source)
  • His information was conveyed through a series of intermediaries to the chief of the CIA's Moscow station.†   (source)
  • Working with her husband, a Taiwanese, Zhang Yin at first bought American scrap paper through intermediaries, but in 1990 she moved to Los Angeles and began to work out of her home.†   (source)
  • His wife, Nfvea, preferred to deal with God without benefit of intermediaries.†   (source)
  • I remember the day the intermediary handed it to me.†   (source)
  • The longer he looked at the pleasing gray-haired man with the admirable index finger, the more he saw him as a secret messenger, an angelic intermediary between him and his goddess.†   (source)
  • Granted, it was labor-intensive for both the AG's office and the prison, but wasn't it better to come face-to-face with the opposing party, instead of having the legal system be the intermediary?†   (source)
  • All my client asks is for me to be the only intermediary.†   (source)
  • They made Tutsis (and in Burundi, both Tutsis and a small princely class) into their intermediaries.†   (source)
  • Through an intermediary, I'd guess.†   (source)
  • He knows the peril to the race when our dead father, who goes as intermediary, waits and waits and knows he is betrayed.†   (source)
  • So he listened at these meetings and remembered; and when he got to his lodgings he penned out notes and then slipped them through an intermediary to the American ambassador.†   (source)
  • Intermediaries.†   (source)
  • It was Mudd's hope that George would act as an intermediary, alerting the police to the fact that his Good Samaritan cousin might just have "accidentally" aided the men who killed Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of 1959, Mundt informed his London masters that he had found within the Praesidium a man who would act as intermediary between them and Mundt.†   (source)
  • Through intermediaries he went on the closed international market and sold to the highest bidder.'†   (source)
  • Others so that God would not take the disdain for His intermediary as a personal insult.†   (source)
  • I admire your perspicacity as well as your caution," said the Jackal's intermediary.†   (source)
  • Holabird moved quickly, trying to work as an intermediary for the Spanish.†   (source)
  • 'My friend Gamma,' interrupted d'Anjou, 'is the perfect intermediary.†   (source)
  • You knew nothing concrete that you could have divulged, no intermediary who pointed to Washington.†   (source)
  • It said that during one of the many civil wars of the last century, Lorenzo Daza had been the intermediary between the government of the Liberal President Aquileo Parra and one Joseph T. K. Korzeniowski, a native of Poland and a member of the crew of the merchant ship Saint Antoine, sailing under the French flag, who had spent several months here trying to conclude a complicated arms deal.†   (source)
  • Through intermediaries.†   (source)
  • Therefore, if there was anything in the room that could shed light on Carlos' intermediary-or on the assassin's operation-it had to be found quickly.†   (source)
  • Two days later, however, when he did not dare return but sent an intermediary to arrange the terms of the separation, she understood that she was going to need more patience than she had foreseen because he seemed ready to sacrifice himself for the sake of appearances.†   (source)
  • What they could do, though, was start an epidemic in which their own ad campaign played the role of translator, serving as an intermediary between the Innovators and everyone else.†   (source)
  • I was also the one who made almost all the contacts with the high command of the military, who was the intermediary with the gringos, and who used my own name and money to buy arms.†   (source)
  • Lois Weisberg, the Connector, belongs to many different worlds — politics, drama, environmentalism, music, law, medicine, and on and on — and one of the key things she does is to play the intermediary between different social worlds.†   (source)
  • Rebeca got her health back just as soon as she heard of the agreement, and she wrote her fiance a jubilant letter that she submitted to her parents' approval and put into the mail without the use of any intermediaries.†   (source)
  • Seven and a half months ago we received a tip about a man who ran a restaurant called the Drei Alpenhauser; it was reported that he was an intermediary between Cain and Chernak.†   (source)
  • That his fees were more reasonable, his apparatus more contained, and because fewer intermediaries were involved there was no possibility of a contract being traced.†   (source)
  • The parasite faces nature through an intermediary.†   (source)
  • Dinners at night were eaten in silence, and if either of them required anything of the other, David or his mother were impressed as intermediaries.†   (source)
  • " But this was one game in which I wasn't going to play intermediary, and when Simon asked me eagerly about their leaving I said casually, "Oh, they just didn't have the time to stay.†   (source)
  • Its enormous headlines, glaring pictures and oversimplified text hit the senses and entered men's consciousness without any necessity for an intermediary process of reason, like food shot through the rectum, requiring no digestion.†   (source)
  • The presence of the secretary as an intermediary was, he judged, essential in this case.†   (source)
  • Lily had such an air of always getting what she wanted that she was used to being appealed to as an intermediary, and, relieved of her vague apprehension, she took refuge in the conventional formula.†   (source)
  • How much we love him—as at that moment I loved Francoise—the good-natured intermediary who by a single word has made supportable, human, almost propitious the inconceivable, infernal scene of gaiety in the thick of which we had been imagining swarms of enemies, perverse and seductive, beguiling away from us, even making laugh at us, the woman whom we love.†   (source)
  • "It's very clever of O. G. The problem which he had to solve was this: how to do away with any dangerous intermediary between the man who gives the twenty-thousand francs and the man who receives it.†   (source)
  • …speedily, whose avowed single object was the tiding over of the ship of the community into a simple condition of Communism; and as they practically undertook also the management of the ordinary labour-war, they soon became the mouthpiece and intermediary of the whole of the working classes; and the manufacturing profit-grinders now found themselves powerless before this combination; unless their committee, Parliament, plucked up courage to begin the civil war again, and to shoot…†   (source)
  • A certain Aug—, chief of the Society aid for tailors, Rue Mondetour, had the reputation of serving as intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.†   (source)
  • And all the reflections which that strange spectacle would awaken in us to-day; that horrible cell, a sort of intermediary link between a house and the tomb, the cemetery and the city; that living being cut off from the human community, and thenceforth reckoned among the dead; that lamp consuming its last drop of oil in the darkness; that remnant of life flickering in the grave; that breath, that voice, that eternal prayer in a box of stone; that face forever turned towards the other…†   (source)
  • Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me.†   (source)
  • When this notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is that I do not understand."†   (source)
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