I firmly believe in arbitrament by police magistrates and civil courts.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Funston's Men] Reference

Every social detail was submitted to her arbitrament.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference

Republic, and, finally, the arbitrament of the question between the.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Carolina has taken the initiative, and chosen the arbitrament of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference

Yet he knew that this was a matter which must be left to the arbitrament of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

Therefore, as perjurer, usurper, and tyrant, he must face the arbitrament of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

In the end they decided to settle the ownership of the coin by the arbitrament of chance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference

Finally it is agreed that the arbitrament of Diana shall be invited and accepted as conclusive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

Oh, Socrates (he answered, deprecatingly), will you not leave it to the arbitrament of Cleinias?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Symposium] Reference

The arbitrament of war forces the abandonment of much of the old façade which hides this shift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy and Society~ Chapter 13~ The Enlargement and Concentration of Political Power] Reference

What vistas of destiny since that protest and affirmation received the sword's decisive arbitrament!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

I. and his Parliament resorted to the arbitrament of the sword to decide who should have the mastery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

If so, what fairer test of courage will you propose than the arbitrament of war — the war just ended?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

Against their wishes, matters had been by the inevitable trend of events forced to the arbitrament of battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

America which for centuries had oppressed their forefathers had finally through the arbitrament of war, freed them.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference

States, to which tribunal the President has properly submitted the final arbitrament of the constitutional question.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The reforms which he effected, the triumphs which he achieved, were not won by the supreme arbitrament of the sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

They interfere with the building of cathedrals and the settling of the destinies of nations by the arbitrament of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference

These, if unsettled by dire arbitrament of the sword, must be left to Time and his best coadjutor, "sober second-thought.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

And since pride is thus rooted in conviction, it resembles every other form of knowledge in not being within our own arbitrament.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wisdom of Life] Reference

She had decided upon nothing — leaving in fact the arbitrament of her faith in the hands of the man who had now come to see her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Anna] Reference

The following details also seem to me of high utility among the inventions of Lycurgus with a view to the final arbitrament of battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians] Reference

At the end of that fight either we will have a arbitrament or we will get rid of leaders who aren't strong enough. it's a win-win situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omri Marcus: Six Easy Ways to End the Conflict in the Middle East] Reference

Another and long-pending claim of like nature, that of the whaleship Canada, has been disposed of by friendly arbitrament during the present year.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Yet, answered I, you see he so disposed himself in reference to the lot, that the choice might pass according to the arbitrament of the wisest man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

We fought hard enough to know that we were whipped, and in perfect frankness accepted as final the arbitrament of the sword to which we had appealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference

Europe; to substitute diplomacy for the actual arbitrament of arms; to secure for England recognition as the true arbiter without involving her in war.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

Both officers and gangs traversed it on every possible occasion, leaving the justice or injustice of the act to the arbitrament of the higher tribunal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

Having once been placed in this position, and fixed in it by the inveterate enmities of prolonged war, it must from that time abide the arbitrament of arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

To-day, because an International Tribunal exists, the Venezuelan imbroglio is referred to it, which else might have gone on to the dread arbitrament of arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference

The case was thus submitted to her arbitrament; but the Eleans, suspecting the fairness of the tribunal, renounced the reference and laid waste the Leprean territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

It ought not to be doubted that such an appeal to the arbitrament established by the Constitution itself would be received with favor by all the States of the Confederacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

But Fortune, who insists upon having the arbitrament of human affairs, did not endow me with sufficient judgment to recognize this from the first, nor the time to surmount it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca] Reference

Sturdy sons of the South have said to their brothers of the North that the people of the South had long since accepted the arbitrament of the sword to which they had appealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference

But sometimes it is necessary to accept the arbitrament of the sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

But both the disputants were drifting rapidly to the arbitrament of arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference

Khalifa would maintain his boast and accept the arbitrament of war, much must be visible from that ridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan] Reference

His arbitrament was instant and final, though rarely invoked, and was perhaps the more tremendous in proportion to its rarity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference