(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".
Shill
Definition:
(v. t.) To shell.
(v. t.) To put under cover; to sheal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
(2) A friend heard the butcher boast five shillings that he would be let off again by the tribunal, for the sixth time.
(3) A well-meaning litany of no-nos: don't be racist, don't be sexist, don't be homophobic, don't shill the World Cup to countries with human-rights issues .
(4) They charge fees of 3,000 Ugandan shillings – about US$2 – a term.
(5) A note on the text The first edition of Dracula appeared in bookshops on 26 May 1897, price six shillings, in a print run (from the publishers Archibald Constable and Co) of some 3,000 copies bound in plain yellow cloth with the one-word title in simple red lettering.
(6) One gloomy August afternoon Stevenson took Lloyd's shilling box of water-colours and made a map of an island.
(7) I'd go across the street with him and give him a 10-shilling note to get home because he never had any money, and that was it.'
(8) "Today I bought a goat, slaughtered, at 25,000 shillings (around £7)," she says, pausing in her shuttle between customers and pot.
(9) "The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies.
(10) With significant donor support from Britain and others, the government has allocated more than 2tn shillings (£856,000) for education in 2010-11, about double its spending on health.
(11) They have only to make their papers good enough in order to win, as well as to merit, success, and the resources of a newspaper are not wholly measured in pounds, shillings, and pence.
(12) But the health centre hasn't the 200,000 shillings (£56) to pay for it.
(13) So why is my overriding desire for the next 12 months to see Morrissey and Marr (and the lawnmower parts ) to put creative differences and court cases behind them, take the shilling for a criminally vulgar reunion concert, and risk tainting my memories?
(14) "Some local staff working for NGOs and UN agencies ask for 3,000 shillings [around £20] to give you a food card.
(15) You then send between 100 shillings (74p) and 35,000 shillings (£259) via text message to the desired recipient - even someone on a different mobile network - who cashes it at an agent by entering a secret code and showing ID.
(16) Osteoarchaeologist Katie Tucker looked again at the bones in the museum when tests showed the team of local historians and residents, and experts from the university, that the bones from St Bartholomew, sold to a 19th-century vicar for 10 shillings as those of Alfred and his family, were centuries too late.
(17) The Uganda Red Cross will need to raise 2.5bn shillings (£640,000) for a three-month operation.
(18) And by doing so I've learned that Thiago Silva is not going to Barcelona because he has signed a new deal that will deliver a few extra PSG shillings into his pockets and keep him at the Parc des Princes until 2018.
(19) A young Treasury minister was once sent out to public meetings to explain currency metrication from the old 20 shillings and 12 pennies.
(20) In 1914 the Treasury printed and issued 10 shilling and £1 notes.