ultimate arbiter
collocation in Englishmeaningsofultimateandarbiter
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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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arbiter
noun[C]
uk/ˈɑː.bɪ.tər/us/ˈɑːr.bə.t̬ɚ/
someone who makes a judgment, solves an argument, or decides what will ...
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(Definition ofultimateandarbiterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The court is theultimatearbiterof capacity.
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Moore was more committed to common sense and our pre-theoretical intuitions as theultimatearbiterof what constituted an adequate analysis.
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However, they were in keeping with a system in which the monarch was viewed as theultimatearbiterof justice.
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The consumer is theultimatearbiterof our industrial destiny.
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The mayor must have regard to such guidelines, but he or she will remain theultimatearbiter.
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If the court is theultimatearbiterof where the line is to be drawn, it has a most important and dangerous political character.
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However, because of differing priorities across the parks, the chief executive will be theultimatearbiteron how the additional income will be used.
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He is to be theultimatearbiter, and that is a fair and reasonable criterion to apply.
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Since the ombudsman's post was first established, the ombudsman has been seen as theultimatearbiteron public services.
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It recognises that state censorship raises difficult issues and it retains the courts, not the state, as theultimatearbiterof the acceptability of material for public sale or hire.
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In all this matter of power politics theultimatearbiterwill be the size of the striking power of the nations taking part in the negotiations.
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Who will be theultimatearbiter?
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That court will be theultimatearbiter.
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Thisultimatearbiter(selection criterion) rests upon the axioms mentioned above.
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The power vacuum resulting from the absence of a ruling monarch as theultimatearbiterin political disputes led to regional civil wars between local factions.
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When federal courts approve federal jurisdiction in a new policy area, they simultaneously establish themselves as the ultimate arbiters of disputes in that policy field, thus expanding their influence.
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The courts remain the ultimate arbiters of what constitutes consent.
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Of course the board are the ultimate arbiters upon the presentations made to them.
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Men and women, not nations, are going to be the ultimate arbiters of our human destiny.
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We do not wish banks to be the ultimate arbiters of whether a company should be saved.
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