(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.
Arbitrary
Definition:
(a.) Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.
(a.) Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power.
(a.) Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government.
Example Sentences:
(1) This developed concept of "valve only" energy loss has the potential of standardising the findings of different research groups by removing the arbitrary selection of measurement points from reported results.
(2) 'Vertical' sections are plane sections longitudinal to a fixed (but arbitrary) axial direction.
(3) In the microtitre plate assay only 45% of specific IgE was immobilized and it was necessary to express the results in arbitrary units.
(4) It is concluded that renin levels in hypertension are influenced by several factors and that any attempt to subdivide patients into renin subgroups is therefore arbitrary.
(5) In his letter Abd El Fattah highlights the arbitrary nature of many of their detentions, the torture to which thousands have probably been subjected – and the apathy towards, and often enthusiasm for, such malpractice among the public.
(6) Although the diagnosis of hyperlipidemia is somewhat arbitrary, in that the upper limits of normal are not universally agreed upon, it is clear that the risk of atherosclerosis increases with plasma cholesterol concentration; it may also increase in hyperglyceridemia.
(7) Several arbitrary definitions have been used, some related to visual estimates of coronary stenosis and others to quantitative angiographic techniques.
(8) More than 60% of the residents' working hours in this program exceeded the arbitrary 80-hour limit, emphasizing the challenge of complying with the imposition of maximum work hours.
(9) Practically, serially accumulated images with sequentially prolonged accumulation times are weighted by two arbitrary functions.
(10) While somewhat arbitrary, the number of drug-affected newborns, adjusted for underreporting, was about 38,000 (95% confidence interval: 30,000-45,000).
(11) The almost-Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States is unlike anything that could have been conceived in 1979 [...] I cannot imagine a more "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary invasion" than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.
(12) For the chain with arbitrary values of characteristic times of individual stages the maximal possible degree of the chain stability and corresponding value of the feedback coefficient are estimated.
(13) The cellular total polyamine (spermidine + spermine) concentration on the slides varied between 4 and 15 nmol per mg protein (MCF-7 cells) and 5 and 26 nmol per mg protein (HeLa cells) and the corresponding microfluorometric results between 60 and 115 arbitrary units (MCF-7 cells) and 80 and 160 arbitrary units (HeLa cells).
(14) A general purpose computer program, PROPAGATE, has been written to allow addition, deletion, and modification of the beam line elements used in the calculation and to provide a convenient means of repeating such calculations for arbitrary beam lines.
(15) The current government should learn from past mistakes and not expand the programme too quickly in pursuit of arbitrary targets, and, above all else, not overclaim for free schools.
(16) The device consists of a motor-driven shaft which moves the record past a fixed cursor, and an electronic counter which records the movements of the shaft, thereby providing a cumulative tally of the distance of the current position of the cursor from some arbitrary origin on the record.
(17) Analysis of total radioligand binding was found to be a better procedure because it eliminates the use of an arbitrary concentration of unlabelled ligand and improves the accuracy of the assay.
(18) Water ferns (Salviniaceae) and seed ferns (Pteridospermae) are known as the arbitrary type of Lycopsida which did not reach the state of shot structure of the body.
(19) Methods are reviewed for estimating the transverse relaxation time T2 and the pseudodensity (PD) from spin-echo measurements acquired at an arbitrary set of echo times [TEi].
(20) The response of the resting (fully formed) hair follicle to irradiation was studied using an arbitrary 6 unit scale of epilation as an endpoint.