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She asked the Prime Minister of India to help mediate an agreement.

She tries to mediate her parents' arguments.

As a respected man in the community, my father was often called on to mediate feuds.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

They spoke in veiled attacks about his mediation of talks surrounding the black boycotts of Korean businesses across the city.  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

When the two sides meet … you will be the mediator.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero, 2010

"I'm too hungover to mediate," Radar answered quietly.  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress—to the future.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

She held Scarlett's hand and passed her tissues, calmed Marion down, and then mediated through the twists and turns of what Scarlett had done.  (source) Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You, 1998

Immediately, Mr. Toller.†  (source) George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

I was not opposing the authorities but mediating between my own people and the men I had so long fought against.  (source) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994

To Libya then he mediates the way; With guileful art a stranger to betray, And sell to bondage in a foreign land: Much doubting, yet compell'd I quit the strand, Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails, Aloof from Crete, before the northern gales: But when remote her chalky cliffs we lost, And far from ken of any other coast, When all was wild expanse of sea and air, Then doom'd high Jove due vengeance to prepare.†  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

He had never been charged with anything, but he did lose his wife and two kids along with his job when he mismanaged several transactions and tottered drunk into a mediation hearing.  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009

Aldous flew in a professional mediator to talk to me and Mike.  (source) Gayle Forman, Where She Went, 2011

The effects of the medication are mediated by microbes in the gut.

We have lost several from a postnatal stress syndrome, which we believe is adrenocortically mediated.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Through his mediation, the "Kingdom of God" was about to become a reality.  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

But in spite of this knowledge and these admissions, in spite of the fact that his friend's support and sympathy were now his only comfort, Bernard continued perversely to nourish, along with his quite genuine affection, a secret grievance against the Savage, to mediate a campaign of small revenges to be wreaked upon him.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

"When the election between Burr and myself was kept in suspense by the Federalists," Jefferson would write to Benjamin Rush, "and they were mediating to place the President [pro tempore] of the Senate at the head of government, I called on Mr. Adams with a view to have this desperate measure prevented by his negative."  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

It springs from the universe and is the property of God, and the words have been intercepted—on the wing, so to speak—by such mediators as Lao-tzu, Jesus, Gautama Buddha and thousands upon thousands of lesser prophets, including your narrator, who heard the terrible truth of their drumming somewhere between Baltimore and Wilmington and set them down with the fury of a madman sculpting in stone.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

What is friendship between women when unmediated by men?  (source) Toni Morrison, Sula, 1973

The verb Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat used implied that it hadn't been an approved, Medical-mediated suicide but something illicit and messy.  (source) Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice, 2013