(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.
Determine
Definition:
(v. t.) To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
(v. t.) To set bounds to; to fix the determination of; to limit; to bound; to bring to an end; to finish.
(v. t.) To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
(v. t.) To fix the course of; to impel and direct; -- with a remoter object preceded by to; as, another's will determined me to this course.
(v. t.) To ascertain definitely; to find out the specific character or name of; to assign to its true place in a system; as, to determine an unknown or a newly discovered plant or its name.
(v. t.) To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide; as, the court has determined the cause.
(v. t.) To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead; as, this determined him to go immediately.
(v. t.) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
(v. t.) To ascertain the presence, quantity, or amount of; as, to determine the parallax; to determine the salt in sea water.
(v. i.) To come to an end; to end; to terminate.
(v. i.) To come to a decision; to decide; to resolve; -- often with on.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(3) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(4) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(5) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(6) The nucleotide sequence of a 2.2-kb DNA fragment which contains the complete RAD7 gene was determined.
(7) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
(8) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(9) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
(10) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(11) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(12) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(13) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(14) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
(15) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(16) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(17) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
(18) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(19) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(20) The serum concentration of hyaluronan (HYA) was determined in 59 patients with various myeloproliferative disorders, including 33 patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis.