arbiter
Example Sentences
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To repudiate a doctrine accepted by the nation’s cultural arbiters gets you uninvited to their parties and called a fool.
As with Abu Hamdan’s voice patterns, the arbiter of citizenship is not a passport, ID card or birth certificate but a set of behaviors and attributes classified by a fixed system.
From Salon
As Iran’s spiritual leader and its highest authority, Khamenei, 85, was the ultimate arbiter in state affairs, including the economy, education and defense.
From Los Angeles Times
There have been Protestant churches in particular, and some Catholic churches too, that have been way up front in taking their role as moral arbiters seriously.
From Salon
These purges, analysts say, effectively have transformed the Central Military Commission from a decision-making body into a personal secretariat, cementing Xi as the sole arbiter of military power.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
