Sentence examples for had been mediating from inspiring English sources

A close friend said he had been mediating between two warring gangs at the time of his murder.

The bishops had been mediating national dialogue talks, but canceled them last week when more than 15 people were killed at a march.

The Syrian president, Bashar Assad, confirmed today that Turkey had been mediating between his country and Israel since April last year.

Both the OAS and the Carter Center had been mediating in Venezuela for two years and had already observed the signature collection and verification process.

The mural's fate took a turn two weeks ago when City Councilman Angel Rodriguez, who had been mediating negotiations between the mural's supporters and opponents, backed Rite Aid's decision.

The evacuation followed reports in the Lebanese news media that Druze leader Walid Jumblatt had been mediating between the Syrian rebels and the Assad government and Hezbollah to ensure a safe exit for civilians.

The view, as Pavord notes, "did not exist properly until it had been mediated".

For decades, it had been, in the writer Jon Savage's lovely phrase, "the teenage news", the primary means by which everything from fashion to politics had been mediated to a mass audience.

The State Department under John Kerry has admitted, however, that it wanted to use that money as "leverage" to secure the sailors' release, although its transfer had been mediated through an international court.

The wishful idealism had been mediated by real people, the cartoonists and the writers, and so it couldn't help but reveal itself as a truer picture of what America really was.

A panicked thought occurred to me: my social life from 1994 to at least 2004 had been mediated through the internet, and I could remember the particulars of almost none of it.