And yet, he said, given all the work involved and the potential discomfort in having to act as arbiters in disputes among neighbors who are also friends, the board has been discussing the possibility of turning operations over to a management company.
Of course, under the Constitution the pregnant woman is the sole arbiter of what happens to the potential life inside of her.
America is the main arbiter in a series of conflicts, either actual or potential, in a wide arc stretching from the Adriatic to the Caspian Sea.
It takes us, the citizens and potential soldiers of America, to be the counterbalancing and ultimate arbiters of the reality we live in.
The omnipresent military, arbiter of power for decades, hovers in the background, a potential foot on the fragile plant of civilian rule.
So too could the fact that there will be no American go-between for them.Likewise, the United States has agreed to supervise both sides' compliance with the road map; a potential win for the Palestinians since in the past Israel has been the de facto arbiter of performance.
He observes that the two viewpoints should coexist in order to avoid an overly limited or detached outlook, as the potential for discrepancies between them usefully highlights and makes visible the political question of precisely who should be the arbiter in health policy debates (see Coggon, 2012, p. 215).
There are also concerns about the potential impact of the proposed arrangement on Northern Ireland's peace agreement, which relies in part on London being an impartial arbiter between those, such as the DUP, who want the province to remain in the United Kingdom and those who want it to be part of Ireland.
Perhaps anachronistically, the final arbiter in the event of deadlock is the monarch, who, acting on the advice of politicians, may summon a potential leader to Buckingham Palace and invite her or him (most likely him as things stand right now) to form the next administration.
Reality is the final arbiter.
