Sentence examples for sought to arbitrate from inspiring English sources

In effect, the empire was a German confederation, though Bohemia was in and Prussia was outside it; the Mantuan succession affair (1627 31), when the emperor sought to arbitrate, recalls an obsolete Italian dimension.

But they left open the idea that they might seek to arbitrate the issue with Major League Baseball in the hopes that they would win a ruling that would allow them to sign Bourn and keep the draft pick.

● Very few consumers seek to arbitrate individual disputes for the obvious reason -- the costs outweigh individual rewards.

The Act sought to eliminate that hostility by placing agreements to arbitrate "'upon the same footing as other contracts.'" Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co., 417 U.S. 506, 511, 94 S.Ct.

Carlyle sought to require that all future investor actions be arbitrated instead.

Over a twenty year period there have been three cases where negotiate-arbitrate regulation (NAR) has been applied to airport services, two cases where a decision has been made to not apply negotiate-arbitrate regulation to services provided and a case where an airline has sought to apply NAR and then withdrawn its application.

Ashton has certainly sought to make her mark, with great difficulty, on two key dossiers: negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme and in the Balkans, arbitrating between Serbia and Kosovo.

A party seeking to compel arbitration must show (1) that a valid agreement to arbitrate exists between the parties and (2) that the specific dispute falls within the scope of the agreement.

Citibank's petition to compel arbitration turned on application of California's Broughton Cruz "rule," which makes agreements to arbitrate claims seeking an injunction that would benefit the public at large (and not just benefit an individual consumer) invalid.

Many banks require workers to arbitrate disputes rather than seek redress in the courts.

The Muslim group is acting under an Ontario provincial law passed in 1991 that gave religious authorities the power to arbitrate civil matters as long as the people seeking arbitration do so voluntarily and are free to appeal those decisions in Canadian courts.