Sentence examples for position of referee from inspiring English sources

The umpires for the race were Charles Woolaston and C. J. Selwyn, while W. Harrison Esq, the Commodore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, fulfilled the position of referee.

Rather than assign judges the role of gatekeeper, a more sensible approach, she writes, would be for judges to assume the position of referee.

But it must now first inform American monitors, which may put them in the position of refereeing violence between the sides.

It would also depend on the position of the referee and the language or languages he reads.

Instead of releasing the ball by letting it slide off your finger tips, you are going to have your wrist in the position of a referee signaling a first down.

I'm in no position to referee here about what sort of index annuity is typical.

His vision of slavery's monstrosity is historically accurate; his anger, aptly placed — yet the world that he imagines and admires, one without reconciliation, is essentially and crudely adolescent, a version of history as blood feuds in which anger begets anger and revenge breeds revenge as he watches from the superior position of the cinematic referee, at a safe historical distance.

"Chapter 9 really puts the judge more in the position of being a referee than somebody who can really run the county," said Paul S. Maco, a partner with the firm of Vinson & Elkins who led the Office of Municipal Securities at the Securities and Exchange Commission during the bankruptcy of Orange County, Calif .— the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy until this week.

Friends report that Meyers found himself in the position of family peacemaker – and at times referee – as his mother and grandmother conducted an undignified public squabble over the family fortune.

Johnson as the head of referee operations.

Look to your sponsoring partner as a sort of referee.