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- noun The quality or state of being
evenhanded
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Examples
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To any sensible person, evenhandedness is a good thing.
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Not that there’s an indisputable answer, but I don’t think it’s unfair for a news organ to decide that evenhandedness is inappropriate here.
The Volokh Conspiracy » CNN Profiles Lawyers in Same-Sex Marriage Case 2010
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He turned the notion of evenhandedness and international law into a private fiefdom where science and technology are distributed according to the whims of Washington mandarins.
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But there's a price to be paid for that evenhandedness, which is that judges have less information.
HLS News 2009
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But there's a price to be paid for that evenhandedness, which is that judges have less information.
HLS News 2009
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But there's a price to be paid for that evenhandedness, which is that judges have less information.
HLS News 2009
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On the contrary, Mr. Obama and his team are all great worshipers at the shrine of "evenhandedness," which has long served as a deceptive euphemism for pressuring Israel to make unilateral concessions to Palestinian demands.
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I would assume that colleagues strongly approved of "evenhandedness" in the classroom — which is the conventional pose, even among lawprofs who are politically engaged outside of class.
Barack Obama at the University of Chicago Law School. Ann Althouse 2008
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Edelman does indeed speak with "fierce honesty," but the kind of spurious "evenhandedness" attributed to him by Davies is altogether foreign to him.
Poles and Jews: An Exchange Brumberg, Abraham 1987
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Foxman expressed outrage at the idea that the United States should demonstrate any "evenhandedness" in conducting Middle East Policy.
unknown title 2009
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