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• n  someone with the power to settle matters at will
  she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion
• n  someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
  the critic was considered to be an arbiter of modern literature

• In a world of ever changing values who will be the final arbiter of morality?
• Cynthia plans to contest the charge before a state arbiter next month.
• Judge Sullivan is a strict arbiter and is not taken in by the gimmicks of the lawyers.

• supreme authority
• arbitrator
• umpire

News & Articles

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• Designers Think Apple's New Flat iOS Look Is 'Ugly' and 'Harsh' and Blinding
  After years of complaints about Apple's cheesy, outdated, and decidedly "skeuomorphic" iPhone software look, the company and its geek design god Johnny Ive have unveiled iOS 7 and, well, nobody in the design-geek set really likes it. Well, not nobody: The Wall Street Journal, that arbiter of cool, called it "cool." And the Apple-obsessed blogger John Gruber wrote a whole post praising Ive's new ...
  June 11, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
• Turkey protests a new threat to Syria peace efforts
  Istanbul, Turkey (UPI) Jun 7, 2013 Europeans are worried Turkey's handling of protests over a minor urban development in Istanbul is damaging the whole EU-NATO peacemaking and security project in Syria. Turkey has staked its reputation as a non-partisan, non-Arab arbiter of disputes and flare-ups in its neighborhood and as the modern inheritor of the mantle of the old Ottoman Empire. Arabs ...
  June 10, 2013 - Space War
• MESSENGER Team Names Ten Major Fault Scarps On Mercury
  April Flowers for redOrbit.com -- Your Universe Online Recently, the MESSENGER Science Team proposed names for 10 rupes on Mercury. The International Astronomical Union (IAU), which has been the arbiter of planetary and satellite nomenclature since 1919, approved the names. In keeping with the theme of naming rupes on Mercury, they all bear the names of ships of discovery. Rupes is the Latin ...
  June 8, 2013 - redOrbit

Quotes

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• Mitch McConnell in Boston Globe
  The more we learn about Ms. Kagan's work as a political adviser and political operative, the more questions arise about her ability to make the necessary transition from politics to neutral arbiter,said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky,...
• Bill Richardson in CNN
  Regardless of my personal opinion about the death penalty, I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to who lives and who dies for their crime,Richardson said in a...
• David Petraeus in Leading The Charge
  Iran, at the end of the day, clearly played a role as an arbiter,Petraeus said.