What's the difference between impartial and objective?

Impartial


Definition:

  • (a.) Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
  • (2) We now look forward to a judicial process which will apply impartial analysis and clear legal standards."
  • (3) This is not about the BBC exercising its charter duties of impartiality, as they maintain.
  • (4) "We are also fully aware that the BBC has a duty to ensure impartiality in covering the general election.
  • (5) "The people of Scotland will be given all the information to make their decision … The most important thing is that impartiality can't be seen to be questioned."
  • (6) An ITV news presenter who has been subject to racist and sexist abuse for her decision not to wear a Remembrance Day poppy said she made her decision in order to be "neutral and impartial on-screen".
  • (7) The jurors' handbook for New York's southern district lists critical questions to ask potential jurors, such as whether they "have any personal interest in the case, or know of any reason why they cannot render an impartial verdict?"
  • (8) "I find it quite curious that it's Mark Thompson who is leading the charge about News Corp's plurality when the BBC always put their hands up and say we're impartial.
  • (9) Speakers, if anything, should be towards the people who are not in government, as actually John Bercow probably has done in the way that he has used urgent questions that we have found inconvenient.” The parliamentary website states: “The Speaker is the chief officer and highest authority of the House of Commons and must remain politically impartial at all times.
  • (10) The move follows criticism from the Conservative party that its presenter Lord Sugar's role as the government's enterprise tsar compromised the BBC's political impartiality .
  • (11) He added: "Our focus is on providing the highest quality, most impartial and balanced coverage so audiences have access to the information they need."
  • (12) Congress can take a simple step to restore confidence in the court’s impartiality and integrity: authorizing its judges to appoint lawyers to serve the public interest when novel legal issues come before it.
  • (13) "I hope in the future they will show a more sensitive and impartial view to those involved in such heartbreaking events and especially in the lead-up to potentially high-profile court cases."
  • (14) One, the police cannot be trusted for an impartial first account.
  • (15) The findings of this study further reinforce the image of the humanitarian system as one that, in breach of the humanitarian principle of impartiality, appears incapable of delivering assistance solely according to needs.
  • (16) Conservatives have written them; liberals have written them; impartial professionals have written them.
  • (17) A letter from Edwin Coe solicitors argues that any agreement between the DUP and the Conservatives would compromise the government’s independence and breach the reasonable expectation of the citizens of Northern Ireland, including McClean, that the government will act with rigorous impartiality.
  • (18) By making comments within a few hours of the death to the effect that police had no other choice but to shoot call into question the ability of Victoria police to conduct the investigation impartially and independently.” Cornelius earlier said he was giving more information than usual to ensure the public understood the full circumstances.
  • (19) The letter also points out that Sir Peter is not sitting as a judge trying litigation, nor conducting a statutory inquiry, and so has no legal duty to satisfy the tests of impartiality and independence that apply in such cases.
  • (20) He suggested that this was a political decision and said the NLRB had always been "anything but impartial".

Objective


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an object.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed to subjective.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n.
  • (n.) The objective case.
  • (n.) An object glass. See under Object, n.
  • (n.) Same as Objective point, under Objective, a.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
  • (2) Theoretical objections have been raised to the use of He-O2 as treatment regimen.
  • (3) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
  • (4) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
  • (5) Further improvement of results will be possible by early operation, a desirable objective.
  • (6) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (7) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
  • (8) The objective remission rate was 67%, and a subjective response was observed in 75% of all cases.
  • (9) The objective of this study was to examine the effects of different culture media used for maturation of bovine oocytes on in vitro embryo development following in vitro fertilization.
  • (10) Reversible male contraception is another objective that remains beyond our reach at present.
  • (11) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
  • (12) To alleviate these problems we developed an object-oriented user interface for the pipeline programs.
  • (13) The objective of this work was to determine the efficacy of an endoscopic approach coupled to a Nd:YAG laser fiber in performing arytenoidectomy.
  • (14) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
  • (15) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
  • (16) In this way complex interpretations can be made objective, so that they may be adequately tested.
  • (17) This paper provides an overview of the theory, indicating its contributions--such as a basis for individual psychotherapy of severe disorders and a more effective understanding of countertransference--and its shortcomings--such as lack of an explanation for the effects of physical and cognitive factors on object relatedness.
  • (18) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
  • (19) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
  • (20) Among 71 evaluable patients 25% showed objective tumor response (three complete, 15 partial), at all three dose levels and irrespective of the major tumor site.