Sentence examples for acting as mediators from inspiring English sources

There has also been a big push within the court system itself to resolve cases through mediation, with judges acting as mediators.

Taylor said: "The PFA offered to help and contacted both parties with a view to acting as mediators, but neither came back to us.

Around the time of the Abbasid dynasty, cross-border trade became extremely active in the Islamic world with merchants acting as mediators for the movement of goods among western and African countries, India, and (later) China.

During Dutch colonial rule, Jewish communities were established in major trading cities where they often dealt in real estate, acting as mediators between colonial rulers and locals, said Anthony Reid, a scholar on Southeast Asia at the Australian National University.

Ending the siege must have been a "difficult" decision for the Israeli prime minister to take, said President Vladimir Putin, but it was a welcome one.Russia is a member of the international "quartet", which also includes the United States, the United Nations and the European Union, which are acting as mediators in trying to bring peace to the Middle East.

In 167 Rome proceeded to punish those who had sided with Perseus (such as the Illyrian Genthius), those whose loyalty had wavered (such as Eumenes), and even those who had contemplated acting as mediators in the war (such as the Rhodians).

On 4 August 2009 Rajoelina met with former Madagascar presidents Ravalomanana, Ratsiraka and Zafy along with former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano acting as mediator at the four-day mediation crisis talks held in Maputo, Mozambique.

It says it was acting as "mediator" between the two parties.

Microsoft executives say they were finishing a reply to the Justice Department's latest offer when the federal judge acting as mediator halted the talks on Saturday.

After behind-the-scenes negotiations, with the PCC acting as mediator, Cox reluctantly accepted the People's grudging agreement to publish a 63-word apology on page three the following week.

Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, who is acting as mediator, has consistently attributed the lack of progress in the 21-month-old talks to the absence of the Hutu rebels who are fighting the Tutsi-led army.