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the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment
they submitted their disagreement to arbitration
How To Use arbitrament In A Sentence
- Near four hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, king of England, and the king of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by what is called the arbitrament of God. Vietnam: Solutions
- She declares, that she will not submit her claim to the arbitrament of human reason; she demands that it shall be at once conceded as an article of faith.
- Confident in their military prowess, they preferred to try the arbitrament of war.
- Good judicial expertise system will affect law arbitrament with a active influence, which does not only help to realize justice, but also guarantee the quality of cases.
- I firmly believe in arbitrament by police magistrates and civil courts. With Funston's Men
- Or, if they should be so far admitted as furnishing a species of proof that no malice was intended in this sort of combat, from which fatal accidents do sometimes arise, it can only be so admitted when both parties are IN PARI CASU, equally acquainted with, and equally willing to refer themselves to, that species of arbitrament. Chronicles of the Canongate
- The arbitrament of war forces the abandonment of much of the old façade which hides this shift. Energy and Society~ Chapter 13~ The Enlargement and Concentration of Political Power
- This was the first case of any importance since the organization of the Federal Judiciary, in which the Supreme Court was called upon to exercise the high attribute with which the Constitution has invested it, of deciding questions relative to the powers of sovereign States, which in other countries can only be settled by the arbitraments of the sword.
- The arbitrament is final and bind both parties.
- Poor William James, who invented this point of view, would be horrified at the use which is made of it; but when once the conception of objective truth is abandoned, it is clear that the question, ‘what shall I believe?’ is one to be settled, as I wrote in 1907, by ‘the appeal to force and the arbitrament of the big battalions,’ not by the methods of either theology or science. The Volokh Conspiracy » American Universities and the Nazis: