Arbiters Sentence Examples

In Strabo we find the Druids still acting as arbiters in public and private matters, but they no longer deal with cases of murder.

The deed of submission first defines the terms of the reference, the name or names of the arbiters or arbitrators, and the "oversman" or umpire, whose decision in the event of the arbiters differing in opinion is to be final.

Formerly, where no oversman was named in the submission, and no power given to the arbiters to name one, the proceedings were abortive if the arbiters disagreed, unless the parties consented to a nomination.

Under the common law of Scotland, a submission of future disputes or differences to an arbiter, or arbiters, unnamed, was ineffectual except where the agreement to refer did not contemplate the decision of proper disputes between the parties but the adjustment of some condition, or the liquidation of some obligation, contained in the contract of which the agreement to submit formed a part.

Under any circumstances, neither the training nor the position of judges is such as to make them fit to be the final arbiters of political disputes.

In his election speeches Gladstone had insisted on the necessity of the country returning a Liberal majority which could act independently of the Irish vote; and the result of the general election had left the Irish the virtual arbiters of the political situation.

The Imams are, in Shi`i doctrine, the authorized interpreters of the Qur'an as well as the supreme arbiters of the Holy Law.

They are the arbiters of taste and I think generally people accept what is being exhibited because it has the imprimatur of the institution.

Taxi drivers - the best arbiters in any country - don't have the same wariness that usually comes with authoritative regimes.

They became ' self-appointed arbiters of taste ', setting ' standards of propriety ', upholding reputations of respectability in polite society.

Taxi drivers - the best arbiters in any country - do n't have the same wariness that usually comes with authoritative regimes.

The word "Viking" may not exactly define chic for most women who consider themselves the arbiters of all things fashionable, but the new breed of styles inspired by this rugged footwear may just change a few minds.