(n.) One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator. (a) One who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them. (b) One who pleads in behalf of another.
(n.) A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed.
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Intermediary
Definition:
(a.) Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project.
(n.) One who, or that which, is intermediate; an interagent; a go-between.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
(2) About half of the total of the 13 selected parameters showed reactions of the intermediary metabolism of the test groups caused by the feeding.
(3) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(4) Officials in Israel, using intermediaries in Europe, tried to reach out to Ayatollah Khamenei, via Khatami.
(5) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
(6) The role of 20,000 local authority housing officers has yet to be rethought and could act as universal credit intermediaries.
(7) These local glomerular constrictor actions of LTD4 support the possibility that this eicosanoid might play an important intermediary role in the functional impairment accompanying some forms of inflammatory injury.
(8) Lateral diffusion from the surrounding choroid into the optic nerve was detected but diffusion from the prelaminar optic nerve into the juxta-optic nerve retina was prevented by the Kuhnt intermediary tissue.
(9) Fillings were made of Concise composite resin, without applying an intermediary resin (1), after applying the resin layer (2), after diluting the mix with one (3) or two (4) drops of catalyst resin but without an intermediary resin, and after diluting the mix and applying the resin layer (5).
(10) In a social policy and decision-making context, the nurse is an intermediary between political authorities and community groups.
(11) Magnesium deficiency is an important but rather neglected intermediary factor for the occurrence of (avoidable) side effects of renal, ototoxic and cardiac nature, emerge when using cytostatics, immunosuppressives and antibiotics.
(12) Pyruvate inhibits Escherichia coli K-12 biodegradative threonine dehydratase activity by a mechanism distinct from product inhibition by alpha-ketobutyrate and catabolite inactivation by intermediary metabolites.
(13) Mediterranean patients (N = 16) had features intermediary between the two other groups.
(14) Soluble fibrin is observed in patients with intravascular coagulation and represents an intermediary product of conversion of fibrin monomers into a fibrin clot whereby the presence of fibrinogen may suppress fibrin clot formation.
(15) A reaction scheme is proposed which postulates that two electrons are transferred from guaiacol to compound I giving ferriperoxidase and oxidized guaiacol with the intermediary formation of compound II.
(16) Rent for the restaurants is paid to a separate UK company, itself also owned by a Netherlands intermediary.
(17) As far as local intermediaries are concerned, these hunters are simply the latest bunch of rich eccentrics, coming to or travelling through Africa either to hunt like the white explorers and colonialists, or go on safaris like honeymooners.
(18) Oman has been an important intermediary in the past between Washington and Tehran, and Alawi met P0resident Hassan Rouhani and aides to Iran’s supreme leader on a visit to the Iranian capital last weekend.
(19) Receptors are linked to membrane-bound, signal-transducing proteins which act as intermediaries in the generation of second messengers that elicit biological responses.
(20) The nature of the changes in the intermediary metabolites suggested that rise in blood glucose was caused by insufficient insulin.