Sentence examples for asked to mediate from inspiring English sources

A former official in the George W. Bush administration has been asked to mediate.

Finally, Mike Stanley, a former Yankee, is asked to mediate and he assures Everett that he will be quoted accurately.

After the 90-minute hearing, Cuomo said the proceedings confirmed why he was asked to mediate a solution.

Regarded by Hmong immigrants as an exiled head of state, Vang Pao made frequent appearances at Hmong cultural and religious festivals and often was asked to mediate disputes or solve problems.

His career as a labor-management negotiator started in 1933 when, as a freshly minted lawyer in private practice, he was asked to mediate a protracted strike in Brooklyn.

A conference at Stans, in the Nidwalden subdivision of Unterwalden, in November 1481 failed to achieve anything until a pious hermit of Obwalden, Niklaus von Flüe (Bruder Klaus), was asked to mediate.

That same year, Coolidge, when he was asked to help mediate the "Bread and Roses" strike of millworkers in Lawrence, got a bellyful of the I.W.W. (the Wobblies) and became more reflexively sympathetic to business.

(Reuters) SUDAN: ABDUCTED YOUNGSTERS Sudan has asked Canada and Egypt to mediate the release of 6,000 child soldiers kidnapped by Ugandan rebels.

He first came to some prominence in 1972, when Mayor John Lindsay asked him to mediate a dispute in Queens.

Togo appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which asked Blatter to mediate.

"I like to be active in New York," said Mr. Mitchell, pointing to an insurance dispute involving the World Trade Center that Gov. George E. Pataki has asked him to mediate.