Sentence examples for request to mediate from inspiring English sources

"It is not just rude, provocative and arrogant, it is a highly offensive thing to do when Britain has completely ignored a Greek request to mediate this issue through Unesco," said David Hill, the Australian president of the International Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures.

Cornwallis declined the king's request, sending instead Colonel William Kirkpatrick to mediate the dispute.

• Create an ombudsman office at the National Archives to mediate disputes over requests, which currently are rejected outright in a full third of the cases.

The UN suggested it would be willing to mediate if both countries request it.

The judge then requested a verbatim record, while the defence counsel tried to mediate.

The international community, including the UN (which sent an envoy to mediate between the government and the opposition), requested that the elections be deferred.

A bit of fine print inserted in the president's new budget proposal would gut a major provision of the law — the empowerment of a new ombudsman to mediate disclosure disputes and prod agencies to end disgraceful runarounds in which legitimate citizen requests have been deep-sixed without a trace for a decade and more.

The imam tried to mediate.

He also offered to mediate.

National leaders tried to mediate.

Hong Kong offers to mediate the collapsed talks.