During the Lake of the Ozarks affair, Zemaitis had ostensibly been an impartial figure.
This suggests that Di's command was too inscrutable to be divined or influenced; he was in all likelihood an impartial figure of last theological resort, needed to account for inexplicable events.
The encounter was one of many where the priest, who spoke of a town where previously Christians, Muslims and traditional animist faiths had freely intermarried, used his fragile status as an impartial figure to seek to mitigate the bloodshed.
His testimony on Thursday will no doubt underscore his belief that — no matter what people say about him — he is a figure of impartial justice.
"It is established in law that ministers are accountable for their departments and voters expect government facts and figures to be impartial and accurate whether they are used by ministers who support remain or leave.
The resulting data provided impartial evidence to prove Luminanz's figures and also delivered the information required to take it to market," said Emma Woolliams, an N.P.L. researcher.
A more impartial estimate, by Goldman Sachs, puts the figure at $75,000.
Legal pardon granted by kings and presidents reflects this tension between the wish to leave some measure of individual discretion in showing mercy to some public figures and the concern for the impartial application of such supererogatory grace.
Given the stakes and given that the figures are not double-checked by an impartial body, each school faces exactly the sort of potential conflict of interest lawyers are trained to howl about.
A humourless, dwarflike figure, uninterested in court pleasures, unmarried, tactlessly impartial in his condemnations, he could never establish a party of influential supporters.
Mr. Levi, on the other hand, was seen as exemplifying the attorney general as an independent figure, concerned primarily with the fair and impartial administration of justice.
