Sentence examples for as a final arbiter from inspiring English sources

Its rulings, some of which approach 100 pages, have established the court as a final arbiter in these matters.

He was speaking, of course, about his work as an advocate, not his future as a final arbiter of the nation's laws.

Mexico's electoral tribunal acts as a final arbiter for election matters but is widely perceived as having ruled in the PRI's favour in a series of controversial cases.

The paper will conclude with a discussion of open issues that still need to be resolved in order to enable productivity to serve as a final arbiter in comparative analysis of design choices for system hardware and software.

The problem with war, Schell writes, is that in the course of the last century it ceased to function the way that Clausewitz described it: as a "final arbiter" of conflict between states.

In 2003, an intensive round of reunification talks under the auspices of the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, produced a blueprint for a single state with Greek and Turkish Cypriot federated regions, but it collapsed when Mr. Denktash refused to put it to a vote of his people and balked at the appointment of Mr. Annan as a final arbiter.

Mr. Emery suggested creating a final arbiter of power over Charter changes, such as in California, where voter referendums are considered the final word.

Not that any test is a final arbiter of anything.

The court has usually been widely respected, but occasionally derided.Even most of its justices have not seen the Supreme Court as a final, unaccountable arbiter.

Typically we treat a definition as the final arbiter of meaning, a scientific pronouncement of a word's essence.

The Rev. John Jenkins, the university's president, refused to have any contact with the family, saying it might compromise his ability to serve as the final arbiter in a disciplinary hearing, according to a March 2012 investigation by the National Catholic Reporter.