How to Use brokered in a Sentence

brokered

adjective

• But the prospect of a brokered convention largely hinges on what happens if no one clears that 1,991 benchmark.
  — Brianna Provenzano, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2020
• The Astana talks are the outcome of a Russian-brokered cease-fire throughout Syria that began at the end of December.
  — Rod Nordland, Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2017
• Hours after the chemical attack, the only rebels still standing in the area agreed to the terms of a Russian-brokered surrender.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Fighting has continued despite a European-brokered cease-fire deal that was reached in Minsk in 2015.
  — Nathan Hodge, WSJ, 19 July 2017
• As The Economist went to press, a Russian-brokered ceasefire had temporarily halted the regime’s bombing.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• While a Russian-brokered cease-fire halted the fighting, international mediators have failed to forge a peace deal since then.
  — Caroline Alexander, Bloomberg.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• The brokered vetting process means that the government never holds developers' source code directly.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 3 July 2018
• Under an unofficial Egyptian-brokered truce, Hamas scaled down the marches in recent months while Qatar delivered cash infusions for Hamas’ civil servants and welfare programs.
  — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• The Secretary of State's office conducted a limited review of the brokered sales in September 2015 after receiving a hotline complaint about favoritism.
  — Ted Sickinger, OregonLive.com, 20 June 2017
• In recent months, Israel has quietly provided some relief as part of an unofficial, Egyptian-brokered truce with Hamas, in exchange for reduced rocket fire from the territory and the scaling back of weekly protests along the border.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019
• In a brokered convention, superdelegates come into play.
  — USA Today, 28 Feb. 2020
• The unusual reluctance comes after years of toxic relations between him and Mr. Obama, culminating in an acrid public feud over the American-brokered nuclear agreement with Iran.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2016
• Israel’s conservative settlement supporters and their American backers rejoiced at the selection, while believers in a Palestinian state and the American-brokered peace process were perplexed and close to despair.
  — Isabel Kershner and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2016
• Julia Azari, an associate professor of political science at Marquette University, says that the ideal system probably lies somewhere between the brokered conventions of the 1960s and the nearly fully democratised system of today.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• Committee officials have long insisted that a contested convention, sometimes called a brokered convention, is unlikely.
  — Matt Stevens, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2020

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