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Mercy Jhansi Posted 12 years ago
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A person who agrees to serve as mediator between two warring factions at the request of both abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later. To take sides at a later point would be to suggest that the earlier presumptive impartiality was a sham.
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at the request of both = when asked by both parties to be the mediator abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later = [if the person accepts the job of mediator,] s/he cannot later choose to support only one of the two parties
- at the request of both = when asked by both parties to be the mediator abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later = [if the person accepts the job of mediator,] s/he cannot later choose to support only one of the two parties
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at the request of both = when asked by both parties to be the mediator
abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later = [if the person accepts the job of mediator,] s/he cannot later choose to support only one of the two parties
abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later = [if the person accepts the job of mediator,] s/he cannot later choose to support only one of the two parties
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