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Definition of even-handed in English: even-handedadjective Fair and impartial in treatment or judgement. 不偏不倚的;公正的;不带成见的,无偏见的 an even-handed approach to industrial relations 处理劳资关系的公正方法。 Example sentencesExamples - The result may be more even-handed and in-depth treatment of controversies such as elections.
- The pace is unhurried, the treatment is even-handed, and the effect is fascinating.
- If you're not seen to be beholden to one group in a party, people feel you'll deal with them in a fair, even-handed way.
- Reporting should be dispassionate and news judgements based on the need to give viewers an even-handed account of events.
- Although the treatment of the events tends to be even-handed, there are some dubious conclusions.
- Try as I might to be even-handed about Edinburgh, I can't.
- That places a special burden on us to be fair and even-handed in our coverage of news organizations that are not independently owned.
- I think the analysis presented here was pretty even-handed.
- The letters page commentaries are merely one means to ensure an even-handed debate and a helpful facility for those without an immediate political platform.
- Despite my attempts to be even-handed, islanders deeply resented an outsider ‘passing judgment’, as they saw it.
- This anomaly showed that the system was not even-handed.
- Of course, the team director has to be even-handed.
- Obligations to kin, he believed, precluded working in the required impersonal and even-handed way.
- What I am interested in is some kind of an even-handed fair play in terms of this prosecution.
- You'd probably agree this proves conclusively that public broadcasting is totally fair and even-handed.
- I admired him deeply because I felt he always was fair, even-handed and honest with me.
- He believed in fair and even-handed dealings, and he enjoyed life and living right to the end.
- Public sector strategies attempt to be fair, even-handed, and consistent when judged by all those who are entitled to the benefits of the service.
- Because the Scottish parliament has no second chamber, the committees must act as an even-handed forum to ensure that legislation is fair and foolproof.
- In order to be effective the law must be applied in a fair and even-handed way or it is no law at all.
Synonyms fair, just, equitable, impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced, non-partisan, non-discriminatory, anti-discrimination disinterested, dispassionate, detached, uninvolved, objective, neutral, impersonal, fair-minded, open-minded, with no axe to grind
Derivativesadverb If it is a matter of national interest, and if the Minister wants us to put politics to one side, then she must deal with all parties even-handedly and equally. Example sentencesExamples - At a local level, regeneration programmes must not only be fair to all groups but also be seen to treat communities even-handedly.
- ‘He treated the prosecution and the defense even-handedly,’ says a Western diplomat.
- In relation to the law I think parents of either sex should be treated even-handedly.
- The note suggests that the author was seeking to review the case fairly and even-handedly and the final conclusion against prosecution comes as something of a surprise.
noun That he should be removed from a post whose primary requisites are probity and even-handedness for displaying these qualities is insupportable. Example sentencesExamples - Meier practices the historical craft with an air of impartial even-handedness that makes objectivity in scholarship seem almost possible; he thus misses numerous critical points of ideology or cultural politics.
- The errant official crowned one of his poorer displays with two of the season's softest penalty awards; though he had the decency and even-handedness to give one to each side, but just looked out of touch all afternoon.
- Complaints about slowness, caution, and lack of innovation or initiative are to some degree inseparable from the qualities of fairness, even-handedness, and thoroughness for which the service is often praised.
- And in the spirit of even-handedness and honesty, girls are too.
Definition of even-handed in US English: even-handedadjectiveˌivənˈhændədˌēvənˈhandəd Fair and impartial in treatment or judgment. 不偏不倚的;公正的;不带成见的,无偏见的 Example sentencesExamples - If you're not seen to be beholden to one group in a party, people feel you'll deal with them in a fair, even-handed way.
- In order to be effective the law must be applied in a fair and even-handed way or it is no law at all.
- Try as I might to be even-handed about Edinburgh, I can't.
- The result may be more even-handed and in-depth treatment of controversies such as elections.
- This anomaly showed that the system was not even-handed.
- I admired him deeply because I felt he always was fair, even-handed and honest with me.
- Reporting should be dispassionate and news judgements based on the need to give viewers an even-handed account of events.
- Because the Scottish parliament has no second chamber, the committees must act as an even-handed forum to ensure that legislation is fair and foolproof.
- That places a special burden on us to be fair and even-handed in our coverage of news organizations that are not independently owned.
- I think the analysis presented here was pretty even-handed.
- Public sector strategies attempt to be fair, even-handed, and consistent when judged by all those who are entitled to the benefits of the service.
- The letters page commentaries are merely one means to ensure an even-handed debate and a helpful facility for those without an immediate political platform.
- Although the treatment of the events tends to be even-handed, there are some dubious conclusions.
- Of course, the team director has to be even-handed.
- Obligations to kin, he believed, precluded working in the required impersonal and even-handed way.
- What I am interested in is some kind of an even-handed fair play in terms of this prosecution.
- Despite my attempts to be even-handed, islanders deeply resented an outsider ‘passing judgment’, as they saw it.
- He believed in fair and even-handed dealings, and he enjoyed life and living right to the end.
- You'd probably agree this proves conclusively that public broadcasting is totally fair and even-handed.
- The pace is unhurried, the treatment is even-handed, and the effect is fascinating.
Synonyms fair, just, equitable, impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced, non-partisan, non-discriminatory, anti-discrimination |