Sentence examples for mediate an argument from inspiring English sources

One moment he must mediate an argument between rival sheiks.

Last week, after trying to mediate an argument between people who are biologically old enough to have children of their own about who is the rightful owner of a certain blue Christmas stocking ("Admit it, you've always been purple"), I realized I needed to seek professional help.

It is not unusual for Officer Sheppard to mediate an argument between two students in the dean's office, for example, or cross Tinton Avenue to the housing project and climb the stairs, walk the halls, in a vertical sweep for truants, and end up at the corner of the school, a favorite spot among thugs looking to steal a Starter jacket from a student running late.

One of them, Calvin Buchanan, whose street name is Monster and who just recently joined CeaseFire, showed the others six stitches over his left eye; someone had cracked a beer bottle on his head while he was mediating an argument between two men.

Try to mediate a resolution.

By agreeing to participate (and not just to mediate) the US has forsaken an argument that America can't be more interested in peace than the parties.

Its most obvious but not its most compelling argument comes in the finale: a literal statement of the old Lutheran hymn "Es Ist Genug," which in both tone and harmonic underpinning mediates the arguments of an old world and a new one.

Naturally, as a Linguistics major at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts (and overall language nerd), I decided to take on the challenge of mediating the argument between "Ree-says" and "Ree-sees" after my teammates started this heated dispute over dinner one evening.

Yes, love is physically mediated, a product of biochemistry.

He mediated countless arguments while sipping glasses of syrupy black tea.

That's an argument".