Sentence examples for fairness telling from inspiring English sources

The PM also defended plans to levy VAT on sales of freshly baked products such as pasties after Lib Dem MP Stephen Gilbert questioned its fairness, telling MPs there was no VAT levied on caviar.

John Rawls took the view that the idea of fairness tells a lot about what the woolier concept of justice is.

My own sense of fairness tells me the question of what this or that may be, and of why he must remain in US custody, should long ago have been answered.

"Our sense is Chiquita is hiding something in the deal by not publicly acknowledging and not publicly stating what kind of advantage they're getting from this," Frank Clemente, the executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness, told HuffPost.

"The Americans are going to have the most downside out of this because it allows Burger King to lower their taxes paid in the US, but they won't be paying any more taxes in Canada," Dennis Howlett, executive director of the non-profit group Canadians for Tax Fairness, told VICE in a phone interview this week.

It's certainly possible that the top tax rate in America is too high, but the fact that elected officials in charge of tax policy pretend that what the top 1percentt pay in federal income tax is reasonable proxy for fairness tells you all you need to know about how serious they are about fixing the problem.

"It was clear that the majority would conduct the hearing without any sense of decorum or fairness," Taylor told reporters in March.

But we do not know here at the prison how we can make the military listen to us, and treat us with basic human fairness," he told Stafford Smith.

"You have a little more sympathy than normal for the nominee having been a part of that process, and it gives you a commitment to fairness," Mr. Sessions told reporters.

In fairness, they told you what you already knew with a greater degree of panache than last year, when the Brit Awards' deathless quest for what their chairman describes as "gravitas" led them to put together an awards ceremony that had all the gravitas and indeed all the entertainment value of a meeting of the environment food and rural affairs committee.

"We haven't paid enough attention to fairness," she told reporters last month.