arbitrament

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Every possible means consistent with Divine law and human dignity must be employed ... to avoid the final arbitrament of nuclear warfare.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fourteen years later the first blood of dreadful civil war was spilled in Alexandria and the city found itself a pawn to arbitrament by the sword.

From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Moore, Gay Montague

The arbitrament of the sword reversed the decision of the lawyers at Roncaglia.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

The Fairfax committee framed resolutions, intimating that a persistence of the government in its measures of coercion would result of necessity only in a resort to the arbitrament of arms.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles

It was inevitable that Carver should undervalue moral suasion; a military man, he recognized only the arbitrament of brute force.

From The Argus Pheasant by Beecham, John Charles