Sample Sentences for
arbitration
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    We're going to ask our minister to help arbitrate the dispute.
    arbitrate = to try to settle an argument with the help of an impartial referee
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    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)
    arbitration = judgment and decision
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    My task was a very hard one; but, as I was absolutely resolved — as my cousins saw at length that my mind was really and immutably fixed on making a just division of the property — as they must in their own hearts have felt the equity of the intention; and must, besides, have been innately conscious that in my place they would have done precisely what I wished to do — they yielded at length so far as to consent to put the affair to arbitration.  (source)
    arbitration = the process of solving a disagreement with the help of an impartial referee
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    One night they had guests-the headmistress of Lara's school, several fellow teachers of her husband's, the member of an arbitration court on which Pavel Pavlovich too had recently served, and a few others.  (source)
    arbitration = an official process of solving a disagreement with the help of an impartial referee
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    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)
    arbitrate = settle disagreements as an impartial referee
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    Jem arbitrated, awarded me first push with an extra time for Dill, and I folded myself inside the tire.  (source)
    arbitrated = decided (as an impartial judge)
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    —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)
    arbitrating = acting as a judge
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    It 'ud be a help to me wi' these lawsuits, and arbitrations, and things.†  (source)
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    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)
    arbitration = an official process of solving a disagreement with the help of an impartial referee
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    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)
    arbitrate = act as in impartial judge
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    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)
    arbitrated = acted as an impartial judge
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    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)
    arbitrating = deciding
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    Courts of arbitration are goody-goody nonsense, of course.  (source)
    arbitration = an official process of solving a disagreement with the help of an impartial referee
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