How to Use honest broker in a Sentence

honest broker

noun

• Pakistan would need to stay the course as an honest broker and not get discouraged.
  — Donald Heflin, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026
• At the same time, there’s concern that there’s no industry titan who is viewed as an honest broker by both sides.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 19 July 2023
• Everything in the two paragraphs above should disturb any honest broker.
  — Scott Maxwell, Sun Sentinel, 28 May 2026
• Its main function is to act as a device to allow Xi Jinping to pose as an honest broker.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Feb. 2023
• People familiar with his work style describe an honest broker who is diplomatic but direct.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
• Still, there is little doubt of Marie’s command of her material or her position as an honest broker.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
• An honest broker trapped in a wicked game, Marshall was in the end whipsawed by cultural and political forces beyond his ken.
  — James D. Hornfischer, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• The bulk of research can be described as falling somewhere between the honest broker and faithful servant perspectives.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• Without the appellate body to act as honest broker, disputes between the biggest members may escalate.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• Palestinian leaders have said the Jerusalem decision means the United States can no longer be an honest broker.
  — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2018
• In their view, Washington is not an honest broker, but a guarantor of Israeli impunity.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• But in their opening comments, most every senator promised to be respectful, to ask tough questions and to ostensibly be an honest broker.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
• All the while, the US presented itself as an honest broker between London and Tehran.
  — Andrew Arsan, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
• The assignment speaks to Perino’s growing role at Fox, and a sense that sources are trusting her as an honest broker of information.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
• Sometimes, being a frank and honest broker – and offering to talk things through and provide considerate feedback – is the best way to be supportive.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2022
• Sometimes, being a frank and honest broker — and offering to talk things through and provide considerate feedback — is the best way to be supportive.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• Better than any adviser before or since, Scowcroft managed to balance the honest broker and policy adviser roles.
  — Ivo Daalder Chicago Tribune (tns), Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• And Merkel – in Germany, Europe and around the world – has earned a reputation as an honest broker and a reliable partner.
  — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2021
• Despite being a freshman senator, Harding received the nod Friday as an honest broker whom the fractured caucus could agree on.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 16 Feb. 2024
• Many of these sellers are great, but sometimes there are less-than-honest brokers out there pushing fake or low-quality products, as The Guardian reported in April.
  — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 2 July 2018
• In just 10 years, he has been considered an honest broker with many Republicans and become one of the more popular senators among colleagues.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• The Houthis have rejected a Saudi offer to host talks between Yemeni factions, saying Riyadh is party to the conflict and cannot be an honest broker.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
• There would be no honest broker to manage disagreements between Saudi Arabia and its Gulf coalition partners, whose forces are essential to the war effort.
  — Mike Pompeo, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
• The real danger is that Icann will be intimidated, hurting the reputation for political independence of what should be the web’s honest broker.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2020
• Historically the pope is viewed as an honest broker in terms of international diplomacy that is at odds with a sitting president's worldview, but experts say there has never been a clash so public or personal.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
• All four men have deep religious and educational ties to Israel – factors that have undermined their legitimacy as honest brokers in the eyes of many Palestinians.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2019
• Many of these sellers are great, but sometimes there are less-than-honest brokers out there pushing fake or low-quality products, as The Guardian reported in April 2018.
  — Alaina Yee, PCWorld, 24 June 2019
• All four men have deep religious and educational ties to Israel – factors that undermined their legitimacy as honest brokers in the eyes of many Palestinians.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020
• Greta Thunberg, the eighteen-year-old Swedish climate campaigner, may be the most honest broker left, and, though she wasn’t formally invited to speak in the hall, her voice has been loud on the streets of Glasgow.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2021
• Journalists like to see themselves as honest brokers, covering politics in a way that gives fair representation to a wide range of actors and playing the watchdog role in a responsible and essentially objective way.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026