arbiters

Certainly how language is spoken energizes poetry, but poetry should not be limited to include only such rhythms and diction that certain arbiters determine is how the “people” speak.

Missing the Vernacular : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

They afterwards imagined in every ten three other Gods, whom they called arbiters; so that there were nine for every month, and these were farther divided into an infinite number of powers.

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

The first of the courts shall consist of elected judges, who shall be chosen by the plaintiff and the defendant in common: these shall be called arbiters rather than judges.

Laws 2006

On the third hand, this is exactly why those traditionally known as the arbiters of theatrical taste have everything to fear from the Blogospheriums.

An Angry White Guy in Chicago 2009

Philosophers, sweet as they may be, are most definitely not the "arbiters" of the cognitive structure of science.

October 15th, 2009 m_francis 2009

Yale law professor Judith Resnik has documented another reason why businesses prefer arbitration: an institutionalized bias among arbiters in favor of repeat players in the system.

The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

Professional arbiters are strongly favored by defendants as more likely to rule in their favor and likely to award less in damages when ruling for plaintiffs.

The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

Employees in unionized workplaces will now need to take their discrimination cases to arbiters and not to courts and juries.

The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

Resnik explains that professional arbiters depend for their work on being selected, or at least not being rejected by, the parties.

The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

I am sickened by the disgusting decline of the United States and those clowns still march around proclaiming themselves the moral arbiters of the planet.

You Don�t Need a Weatherman 2009