Sentence examples for conception of fairness from inspiring English sources
It "operated outside her conception of fairness, and was too managerial.
Some of his Republican challengers, citing a different conception of fairness, want new taxes on those who have been falling behind.
There is not a human being on earth who does not have a conception of fairness and is not a psychopath.
The relationship between appearance and financial success is unsettling because it offends our contemporary conception of fairness; it challenges the idea, popularized by Horatio Alger, that it's possible to improve a bad hand with hard work and perseverance.
But the White House effort to build on that breakthrough to forge a long-term budget deal with House Speaker John A. Boehner crashed amid resistance from the Republican rank and file to Mr. Obama's conception of fairness and balance.
That means more than they're paying at the moment … but there is another conception of fairness, the fairness of the individual who goes out to work and lives next to someone who lives on benefit; we are also going to tackle welfare bills, and that is the Conservative approach to fairness".
What is meant by (distributive) justice, and the related concepts of equality and fairness, is however open to significant conjecture and is not helped by the use of these concepts in an interchangeable fashion despite constituting in turn specific conceptions of fairness, justice and equality.
We develop our thesis through consideration of specific conceptions of fairness that are employed in major areas of the law: torts, contracts, legal procedure, and law enforcement.
In particular, in the evaluation of legal policies, no independent weight should be accorded to conceptions of fairness, such as corrective justice and desert in punishment.
WRITING in the New Yorker, James Surowiecki argues that concern with conflicting conceptions of fairness partly explains the difficulty of negotiating an agreement both Germans and Greeks would both be willing to endorse.German voters and politicians think it's unfair to ask Germany to continue to foot the bill for countries that lived beyond their means and piled up huge debts they can't repay.
