Sentence examples for mediating quarrels from inspiring English sources

Providing for a balance of power in the community, mediating quarrels, and protecting individual rights, the chief or king was the lawgiver and the highest administrator for all community affairs.

Some enterprising Yupik specialized in trade and used their economic advantage to become village chiefs, with such functions as opening and closing the hunting season, helping to mediate quarrels, and deciding the times for trade journeys.

If he mediated a quarrel, the parties recognized his supreme power.

Buddhist clerics have been important in Sri Lankan politics for hundreds of years; the monks are said to have stood by ancient Buddhist kings in battle and mediated between quarreling rulers.

President Bush pressed Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, on Tuesday to have his aides mediate among quarreling factions in Iraq and forge a consensus behind a plan that would allow the transfer of sovereignty to a government in Baghdad by June 30, administration officials said.

China, meanwhile, has signaled that it has no intention of playing a role in mediating India's longstanding quarrels with Pakistan.

He set out to mediate an embarrassing quarrel between two young and arrogant noblemen, the counts Albrecht and Gebhard of Mansfeld.

Zambia has been mediating.

She is willing to mediate when there is some quarrel.

"That will teach you not to answer my calls". Reconciliation followed, only to be broken by another quarrel, this one over the woman asking her family to mediate the couple's problems.

The wives proved problematic during the journey as they quarrelled, sometimes supported by their husbands, and Brunner would have to mediate.