The phrase "fairly ask" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used as a modifier before a question to indicate that the question is reasonable or justifiable. Example: "I think it's only fair to ask you if you have any allergies before I finalize the menu for our dinner party."
All we can fairly ask is that they not embarrass us again.
One can fairly ask, as Caputo does, whether Univision crossed boundaries to hype its story.
How much, you might fairly ask, is the Really Terrible Orchestra trying to stink?
As accounting and tax software gets better, this is a question even the self-employed can fairly ask themselves.
While the Tories can, fairly, say that they've revived the economy, Labour can, fairly, ask – to whose benefit?
And so we may fairly ask, is it accurate to describe Sting or any other man as the King of Pain?
Could you have fairly asked for more?
"How can history judge fairly?" asks Vikram de Saram, a friend of the accused, in So Great a Crime, a new biodrama about Major General Hector MacDonald.
It can be fairly asked whether Francis Coppola can, or needs to, make another film as good as this or the first two "Godfather" films.
He added: "If you have to balance the books, you mustn't balance the books on the backs of the working-age poor... "Yes, you need to finish the job of clearing the decks for the next generation... but you've got to finish the job fairly, asking the people with the broadest shoulders to make the biggest contribution".
It was fairly asked yesterday what College America/ Stevens-Henager / CEHE and the others are supposed to do now if they want what they had expected -- to get the regulatory advantages of a non-profit college.
