arbitration

in a sentence

We're going to ask our minister to help arbitrate the dispute.

Jem arbitrated, awarded me first push with an extra time for Dill, and I folded myself inside the tire.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

He was called upon to arbitrate disputes as though he were an unofficial judge, and Rebecca also enjoyed the high opinion most people had for him.  (source) Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953

They discussed and debated and raved and ranted until they were on the verge of blows, when it was decided to submit the question to arbitration by the princesses.  (source) Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth, 1961

It was made clear, furthermore, that the Society did not regard the houses of businessmen or the 'newly rich' as 'distinguished', and in my opinion this piece of out-dated thinking crucially undermined any serious authority the Society may have achieved to arbitrate on standards in our profession.  (source) Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, 1989

I assumed Baeh was honoring the traditional Confucian structure of community, where in each village a prominent elder man heard the townspeople's grievances and arbitrated and ruled.  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

—a woman who, if she had had the fortitude to bear sorrow and trouble, might have risen to actual stardom in the role of the matriarch arbitrating from the fireside corner of a crone the pride and destiny of her family,  (source) William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, 1936

It 'ud be a help to me wi' these lawsuits, and arbitrations, and things.†  (source) George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Eddis suggested arbitration by the Court of the Ten Nations, but Attolia refused.  (source) Megan Whalen Turner, Queen of Attolia, 2000

Those mirrors, you understand; when the light is on the mirrors seem to be sitting in judgment over me to arbitrate a punishment if everything doesn't come out right.  (source) Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962

For two weeks they studied, debated, and arbitrated the list of guests.  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, 1922

Give me some present counsel, or, behold, 'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that Which the commission of thy years and art Could to no issue of true honour bring.  (source) William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1599

With rumors of violence and military dictatorship rife, Congress determined upon arbitration by a supposedly nonpartisan Electoral Commission—and Lucius Lamar, confident that an objective inquiry would demonstrate the palpable fraud of the Republican case, agreed to this solution to prevent a recurrence of the tragic conflict which had so aged his spirit and broadened his outlook.  (source) John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1955