He explained that Gray would act as the referee between Aguigui, the good, and Loki, the bad.
John Tierney proposes in his column "Trusting Nature as the Climate Referee" (Findings, Dec. 15) to let Mother Earth be the referee between scientists and deniers on what to do about global warming and when.
When he received Di Canio's pass, Baggio was 10 yards inside the Inter half, to the left of centre, with only the referee between him and the gathering ranks of defenders near the edge of the box.
The Ego -- Consider the ego as the referee between both the id and the superego.
As a parent myself, I have had to be the referee between the onslaught of plastics and gadgets being peddled to our daughter on a daily basis.
Rob Roth: Every time we stage "The Mystery of Claywoman," the underlying battle between my ever present existential nihilism and sympathetic humanism goes into overdrive and I have a difficult time being the referee between those two voices.
The agreement called for the deployment of 20,000 United States troops to the Balkans in the role of referees between the parties to the cease-fire.
Fabianski was complaining to the linesman, Campbell stood perplexed, and the referee stood between Campbell, the ball and the two Porto players.
My colleague Jeré Longman did a thorough examination of the referee drama between these teams last week ahead of the first leg of this semifinal, and in the buildup to the second leg here, questions returned about the role Cuneyt Cakir, a 35-year-old referee from Turkey, will have in the final result.
Ars? Wenger, the Arsenal manager, appeared just as condemning of Martin Hansson, a Swedish fireman, who allowed Porto's quickly taken free-kick goal to stand despite the fact that he, the referee, stood between the only defender and the goal at the time.
