(n.) A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.
(n.) Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
(v. t.) To act as arbiter between.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(2) The fact-checking announcement is a turnaround from 12 November, just days after Donald Trump won the election, when Zuckerberg said of Facebook: “I believe we must be extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth ourselves.” Activist and journalist Daniel Sieradski, who created a browser plug-in called BS Detector that flags questionable news sources , has been a vocal critic of Facebook’s failure to acknowledge any responsibility for the spread of misleading and false information on its platform.
(3) A second attribute of legal causation is that it is based on common experience, and is easily understood by lay citizens who are likely to be the final arbiters of causation.
(4) The force of Lee’s personality, the moral authority that he commanded, left him the arbiter of anything he cared about.
(5) The three sought to resolve the matter in the court's grand chamber, its final arbiter.
(6) In this, Trump’s greatest assets are a public that demands nothing too complicated from the arbiters of political discourse and a media culture that is all too eager to oblige.” Trump, the pick-up artist who seduced America Publication: The Spectator (UK) Author: Hugo Rifkind Rifkind writes for the Spectator and the Times, and while he has supported liberal social measures and even joined Labour to vote against Jeremy Corbyn, he comes from Tory stock, and is best understood as a moderate conservative.
(7) Turner is setting out a regime which he wants to be adopted internationally and raised the possibility of the Bank being the "ultimate arbiter" of judgments over economic risk, with the FSA choosing which levers to pull to reduce the danger.
(8) Obstetricians should not be placed in the position of Portia in The Merchant of Venice, that of an arbiter of an unethical contract.
(9) This occurs more often than not in tacit collusion between a work organization (or the wider community) on the one hand, the individualized 'patient' on the other hand and the doctor as the arbiter who defines socially contested issues in terms of medical problems.
(10) But there's a "hedge your bets" approach here, too: even as the US was dismissing anti-Morsi protesters, it was sending signals to Morsi that it supported his imminent removal – cue the cynical comments from the Egyptian officials involved about "Mother America" , the final arbiter in Egyptian affairs, approving an army takeover.
(11) We know this because BuzzFeed.com, the arbiter of when something becomes a Thing, recently posted a " clean eating challenge ".
(12) The arbiter of suspect and positive findings is biopsy.
(13) This process properly respects parliamentary sovereignty and accepts the supremacy of the supreme court.” Falconer added: “The UK supreme court already is the final arbiter here.
(14) In addition, the arbiter's report says that claims involving a staggering £727m have been laid by Tube Lines, £500m of which are still outstanding.
(15) Each case is different– which is why it requires arbiters, be they judges or mediators or regulators – to reach a view on the facts.
(16) Johnson matters because the IFS is seen as the ultimate arbiter on a range of issues that will have a bearing on the result on polling day: government spending totals, tax, the size of the budget deficit and living standards.
(17) This reinstated psychologists as arbiters of the mental world and restored "objective" criteria as the basis for making claims.
(18) First, how do you play the part of arbiter at Westminster without gradually becoming part of that Westminster system?
(19) "We do not regard ourselves as the sole arbiters of what is right in the world," he said.
(20) In the last several decades serum levels of cardiac enzymes and isoenzymes have become the final arbiters by which myocardial damage is diagnosed or excluded.
Arbitrable
Definition:
(v. t.) Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
(2) However, an amended version of the new contract for England’s 55,000 junior doctors has now finally been agreed, after 10 days of talks overseen by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas).
(3) Had July’s original Fifa judgment not been watered down by the court of arbitration for sport then he would not even have been permitted to train while the ban was in place.
(4) A Football Association Rule K hearing could see the Italian take the League to an independent arbitration tribunal, which may prove a lengthy process.
(5) After the court of arbitration for sport upheld the ban but reduced the sanction from six years to four, Platini again protested his innocence and railed against a “profound injustice”.
(6) On Thursday, the court of arbitration for sport upheld the ban on 68 Russian track and field athletes from the Rio games made by athletics’ governing body, the IAAF.
(7) Nevertheless a great deal of progress was made over the recognition criteria, with agreement reached on all points except the method of appointments to the new regulator, over which the Guardian had reservations, and the arbitration service, which the regional press and magazine editors feared could result in unsustainable cost.
(8) They won't put to rights the arbitration procedures that local editors fear; they'll continue to debate the rights and wrongs of exemplary damages till kingdom come.
(9) Appearing before the court on Tuesday, Australia’s solicitor general, Justin Gleeson SC, said Brandis had previously directed that the material not be communicated to anyone involved in conducting the arbitration.
(10) The arbitration hearing before a former federal judge will determine whether the NFL overstepped its authority in modifying Rice’s two-game suspension, making it indefinite after video of the running back hitting his wife – then his fiancee – was released by TMZ.
(11) Then Fredric Horowitz, baseball's arbitrator, will have 25 games to come to his judgement.
(12) Last week, the suspended Fifa president and his Uefa counterpart lost appeals over their provisional suspensions and plan to take their cases to the court of arbitration for sport.
(13) The case dates back to 2008, when Lagarde, as Sarkozy's finance minister, ordered private arbitration in a long-running business dispute between Tapie and the French state.
(14) Major League Baseball does not announce positive tests and penalties in drug cases involving initial positives until all arbitration is concluded.
(15) All of this is being set aside, as the new agreements call for private, non-transparent, and very expensive arbitration.
(16) It does not address the substance of the issues at hand – neither the arbitral tribunal's jurisdiction nor Mauritius's claim.
(17) Ipso will include a standards and compliance arm with investigative powers and an arbitration service to offer a speedy and inexpensive alternative to the libel courts.
(18) "A woman with such a marriage would have no choice but to go to a sharia tribunal … But it's not the way arbitration is supposed to work."
(19) The detail is still being worked on, he said, but any magazine or newspaper that does not comply with regulation will effectively be preventing a complainant from using a cheaper, royal charter-approved arbitration service and so forcing them to take their case to court.
(20) What is proposed is that the new body should contain an arbitration procedure that will be quicker and more open than the commission, and cheaper and more accessible than the law.