(v. t.) To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.
(v. t.) To decide, or determine generally.
(v. i.) To decide; to determine.
(v. i.) To act as arbitrator or judge; as, to arbitrate upon several reports; to arbitrate in disputes among neighbors; to arbitrate between parties to a suit.
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.
Umpire
Definition:
(n.) A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed.
(n.) A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement.
(v. t.) To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute.
(v. t.) To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game.
(v. i.) To act as umpire or arbitrator.
Example Sentences:
(1) The umpires allow them a different one, perhaps because the previous incumbent was wet - it landed in a puddle, where the water-sucking thing had egested, apparently.
(2) 11.21pm GMT Tweets Jeremiah Tittle (@WWWJT) @LengelDavid @Paolo_Bandini @HunterFelt @GdnUSsports remove the wooden beam from your own eye before you remove the speck from the umpires'.
(3) While nobody wants to see a World Series game end on an umpiring decision, it looks like the officials made the right call here ( watch them explain it themselves here ).
(4) As parliamentary umpire, Bishop could have used her imperious manner to have all members shaking in their boots.
(5) If the catcher blocks the runner before he has the ball, the umpire may call the runner safe.
(6) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.30pm BST 57th over: England 124-6 (Ali 32, Prior 0) "Re over-chirping players," says Austin Elliott, "surely the umpires need a meaningful sanction?
(7) The six umpires conferred and then did exactly that, changing the ruling .
(8) He is the first active MLB umpire to die since John McSherry passed away of a heart attack on the field in Cincinnati on opening day in 1996, an incident that any baseball fan old enough remembers well.
(9) 2.31am BST Tigers 0 - Red Sox 0, bottom of the 3rd The umpires confer and, yes, it's just a strike on Pedey.
(10) "This is your fault," match umpire Ian Gould tells him as the players wait for the clouds to clear.
(11) Broad looks to use his front pad outside off, sparking two yelped appeals and two shakes of the head from umpire Davis.
(12) Third base umpire Jim Joyce made the obstruction call.
(13) Berdych probably set the drama rolling by complaining to the umpire about the balls, although Murray said he did not get involved in that discussion.
(14) It’s quite clear that umpires have no idea to judge the new rule that banned runners from barreling into catchers at the plate, one that came into effect this offseason.
(15) I used to have a reputation for arriving at cricket matches very early in my umpiring days and I will be getting to the ground this afternoon an hour and 20 minutes before the kick-off to make sure I don't miss anything.
(16) The controversial ruling came just days after the umpires had been at the heart of a key play in Game One, when a reversed ruling gave Boston the opportunity to score heavily .
(17) The public can see through this partisan political attack by the unions and the Labor party on one of Australia’s most distinguished and eminent jurists.” “Our political opponents, the Labor party, have been seeking to attack the umpire in this royal commission, namely justice Heydon himself, from day one,” he said.
(18) Updated at 3.32pm BST 2.12pm BST 53rd over: England 108-5 (Root 18, Ali 30) It's odd, this - the umpires tell the players to shut up, they say they will, they don't, and round and round.
(19) I can't tell but the umpires have called Young out which means the Rangers are out of this jam.
(20) It's a low fastball that Adams lets go - he's upset, Molina pops out of the dugout to make sure he's not ejected by the umpire for arguing balls and strikes, and that's the inning.