Sentence examples for mediated a dispute from inspiring English sources

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.

The Buddha himself is said to have mediated a dispute over water rights between two neighboring kingdoms, preventing it from escalating into an armed conflict.

He projected contrition about America's role in starting the meltdown, extolled global resolve to find a way to end the downturn and mediated a dispute between the presidents of France and China over tax havens.

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

He died while trying to mediate a dispute between the Italian patriarchs of Aquileia and Grado.

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.

Courts deal with many considerations when deciding how to mediate a dispute between parents who have joint custody over a child.

He also admitted that in June 2004, he was retained to mediate a dispute between Air Pegasus of New York and Sightseeing Tours of America over helicopter service in Manhattan.

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.

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.

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.