As the host country, Japan tried to play honest broker, bringing the two main antagonists together.
The NEC director is traditionally the honest broker of the economic team's ideas.
As a rare example of a big Asian economy with a current-account deficit, it cherishes its role as honest broker.
And so Mr Daschle is able to act as an honest broker, finding common ground among fellow Democrats in the Senate.
Its smaller neighbours so resent and fear it as the local bully that it is rarely welcomed as an honest broker.
So much, say disgruntled American Arabs (whose lobbying power in America is trivial), for the idea of America as an honest broker.
Involving Norway as an honest broker would save face for the president.
EU. Luxembourg's role of honest broker is enhanced by the fact that it has few national interests, save for bank secrecy, to protect.
Mr. President, we need your support as a mediator, honest broker, and a partner, as the parties move along the hard but inevitable path of settlements.
Congress should, if it does anything with regard to "fixing the process" in the aftermath of the FS-X deal, ensure that an honest broker is created.
In Arab eyes, America's credibility as honest broker hinges on the Clinton administration's ability to press Israel into carrying out its treaty commitments (see article).
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Tim has served with distinction under both Democrats and Republicans and has a long history of working comfortably, and as an honest broker, on both sides of the aisle.
Our job as IT leader is to help determine the right balance, to be an honest broker in evaluating pros and cons and to lead the discussion and decision.
As an honest broker, she has helped advance programs and policies to enhance citizen security in El Salvador while weakening transnational crime links that affect our own national security.
As a result, the Council appeared not to perform its essential function as an "honest broker" in space policy-making and acted on the basis of a highly partisan and flawed study.
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The only way to ensure that the Nation is properly served is to create a strong office within the National Security Council, chartered to serve as a dispassionate and honest broker.
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He roundly condemned the attacks on New York and Washington, he is reported to have supplied America with intelligence on Osama bin Laden's allies, and he acted as honest broker in the Philippines.
The current one offers Ennahda a second chance to rise above its partisan instinct to try to lock in its control over Tunisia, and to serve instead as an honest broker for all Tunisians.
Investors are forever seeking protection from unscrupulous financial advisers, and it seems the hardest thing to find is not just someone who is knowledgeable and experienced but a truly honest broker or investment planner.
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Regional specialists believe that Tanzania's reputation as an honest broker and as a strictly neutral party in the conflicts afflicting its neighbours would be damaged by Tanzanian soldiers serving as mercenaries for forces outside the country.
Even where disputes have in recent years been diplomatic rather than military such as the Greek-Turkish stand-off each of the parties made clear that it would like Mr Clinton to fight its own corner, rather than act as honest broker.
In addition to starting troop withdrawal within 60 days of taking office, Clinton said that as president, she would urge the United Nations to act as a "neutral, honest broker" in reaching political agreements and also in helping resettle millions of Iraqi refugees.
Last Saturday, Fatah negotiator Saeb Erekat published an op-ed in The Washington Post where he portrayed Netanyahu as more radical than Hamas, and demanded that the US show that it is a true "honest broker" by treating Israel and Palestinian terrorists as moral, political and strategic equals.
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