arbitrate
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Instead, Wilhelm learned that the fate of his bet was up to a loosely organized body of cryptocurrency holders empowered to arbitrate such disputes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
It offers legal benefits, including the ability to arbitrate disputes abroad at independent tribunals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
He said the review did not and “could not arbitrate on whether or not Israel has breached international humanitarian law”.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024
The new law will take effect when it’s published in the country’s official bulletin, at which time courts will no longer arbitrate what journalists can write.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
Beloved had sat down with her and Redemption during their first big fight, when they were thirteen, to arbitrate.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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Bodner challenged his firing soon after with Finra, which arbitrates employment disputes brought by brokers and advisers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
He arbitrates disputes, much like any TV judge, but his show lacks the self-serious demeanor of other shows that try to replicate a real-life courtroom, she said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
European leaders appealed to the World Trade Organisation, which arbitrates in trade disputes, and won.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2018
Instead, they’re pushing for a complete overhaul of the system by which the university arbitrates sexual harassment claims.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2017
Discussion and the general will arbitrates the question, and to this, private opinion yields with a good grace, and order is preserved uninterrupted.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man by Conway, Moncure Daniel
He arbitrated salary disputes in baseball, of which he is a lifelong fan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
And while she could still lose her team gold once the case is arbitrated later — and any other medal she wins — Valieva for now is cleared to pursue her Olympic dream.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
In the most generous interpretation, it was about establishing a shared public space in which facts could be arbitrated and knowing that you could also be wrong.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2021
Apart from stating that arbitrated payments to publishers must be made in lump sums, the new amendments also clarify that the panel must consider costs incurred by the platforms and by the news businesses.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
I assumed Baeh was honoring the traditional Confucian structure of community, where in each village a prominent elder man heard the townspeople’s grievances and arbitrated and ruled.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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But in 1815, with Pope Pius VII arbitrating restitution demands, the French, did give Italy a painting in exchange — not “The Wedding Feast,” but Charles Le Brun’s “The Feast in the House of Simon.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Other kinds of transportation workers who typically do not cross state lines may use Monday's decision to argue that they also are exempt from arbitrating wage lawsuits.
From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2022
For more than a decade, "Judge Judy" has been syndication's most popular show with the tart-talking New Yorker arbitrating small claims cases.
From Fox News ● Sep. 10, 2021
For more than a decade, “Judge Judy” has been syndication’s most popular show with the tart-talking New Yorker arbitrating small claims cases.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
The arbitrating board consisted of three members from each of the two nations.
From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Fish, Carl Russell
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