The phrase "a fair account" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a balanced or impartial representation of facts or events.
Example: "The journalist provided a fair account of the events that transpired during the protest, ensuring all sides were represented."
Alternatives: "an unbiased report" or "a balanced narrative".
Is that a fair account of what goes on in the book?
As for de Gaulle's public career, Fenby gives a fair account of his tempestuous relationship with Churchill.
One day there will no doubt be a fair account of Gordon's premiership, and his role in the Labour party.
The poignancy of that statement is that it is not really a fair account of the broader arc of American history, or even of the Democratic Party.
But there is a danger of cherrypicking the juiciest moments when tweeting court and possibly producing a report which is not a fair account of proceedings.
In addition I have talked to an independent person in the audience, who confirms that Drew's blog is a fair account of what happened on stage.
But a fair accounting of the problems of the office of the independent counsel — the ever-expanding scope, length, and cost of its work, and its insistent focus on behavior that may not be criminal at all — suggest that these problems owe more to the nature of the law establishing the office than to any particular occupant.
But a fair accounting of the problems of the office of the independent counsel the ever-expanding scope, length, and cost of its work, and its insistent focus on behavior that may not be criminal at all suggest that these problems owe more to the nature of the law establishing the office than to any particular occupant.
When you use a fair accounting of transfer students -- which the federal rates do not and in fact penalize institutions when students transfer by counting them as academic failures -- the numbers are even better.
Menand's piece seems, to this practitioner, a largely fair account of our field.
Tim Ashley, in a new volume in Phaidon Press's 20th-Century Composers series, gives an exactingly fair account of the historical record.
