Sentence examples for busy mediating from inspiring English sources

Further, he said, the negotiators had been too busy "mediating" rather than "exerting necessary influence".

He was too busy mediating between the old guard and the new to fight with the passion of a true reformer.

Officers will be uniformed and issued with a wooden-handled truncheon or a teargas spray; 320 of them will form a rapid-reaction force to be on hand whenever needed, particularly at weekends, when they are expected to be kept busy mediating between noisy revellers and local residents.

Since his retirement in 1999, he has been busier than ever, mediating peace talks in Burundi, prodding white businessmen to donate money for rural schools and urging black officials to distribute lifesaving AIDS drugs.

Mario Cuomo has maintained a busy post-government life, serving "of counsel" at the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher and mediating a dispute between the Mets and the trustees seeking money for victims of Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

Zambia has been mediating.

It's also about mediating conflicting interests.

"Sometimes it's just mediating to everybody.

It's about mediating the journey".

Senators were mediating offers and counteroffers.

When Gov. Gray Davis of California raced to Washington, D.C., to ask for wholesale price controls, he found Bill Clinton too busy carving up Jerusalem to mediate; Clinton-appointed federal energy bureaucrats offer only palliatives, with photo op to follow.