Sentence examples for mediate a dispute from inspiring English sources
He died while trying to mediate a dispute between the Italian patriarchs of Aquileia and Grado.
He first came to some prominence in 1972, when Mayor John Lindsay asked him to mediate a dispute in Queens.
THEODORE W. KHEEL, the negotiator, has ventured into the capricious world of campaign finance, offering to mediate a dispute between HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON and MAYOR RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI.
Courts deal with many considerations when deciding how to mediate a dispute between parents who have joint custody over a child.
He was called on to mediate a dispute over turf between Leon Panetta, the director of the C.I.A., and Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence.
In 2006, a dispute between Illinois voters and the state nuclear industry forced then Senator Obama to step in to mediate a dispute between the two constituencies.
A few months after that, Mr. Spitzer's office mediated a dispute between the firefighters' union and the families of several firefighters who died in the attacks.
But while balance may be necessary to mediating a dispute between teenage siblings, a different kind of balance — some call it "false equivalency" — has come under increasing fire.
The recent fighting in Gaza offered a potent reminder of the challenge Washington faces in mediating a dispute when the United States refuses to speak directly with some of the main players, including Hamas and Hezbollah, which it calls terrorist groups.
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.
West Haven's mayor, John M. Picard, has occupied more than a little of his time in recent weeks mediating a dispute between the Savin Rock Carousel Committee, a private group led by those old enough to remember the amusement park, and the city's Building Oversight Committee, led by those too young to remember it.
