Sentence examples for is impartial between from inspiring English sources

It would not have "condemned a European to death for shooting an Arab… [and] by suggesting that the court is impartial between Arab and Frenchman, the novel implicitly denies the colonial reality".

You cannot, he harrumphed, be impartial between the fireman and the fire.

He did not care to be impartial between the firemen and the fire.

Although required to remain impartial over his political views, Robinson wrote: "I am not, though, required to be impartial between democracy and the alternatives.

In particular, the idea of merit applies in one case but not the other: to be impartial between job candidates is presumably to select between them on the basis of merit, whereas to be impartial between one's children is not to think of merit at all, but rather to provide equal protection and care to all.

Such an agent might be impartial between her children with respect to the care they receive (while preferring her own children over others in this respect), and also impartial between the various job candidates; but it is clear that these two uses of the word 'impartial' denote very different practices.

But if these responses are pictured as the results of positive traits or attributes (and not simply as, say, the result of a lack of bias or prejudice), then it is not clear that merely being impartial between persons is sufficient to guarantee that one will possess and display the necessary sensitivities.

This sort of worry is, of course, in part what motivates a consequentialist theory: no person's well-being is more valuable than that of any other person, and so we are unjustified in failing to be impartial between intimates and strangers.

There were complaints that there is impartial [unfair] treatment between people.

[Mbile, Anaesthetist, A002] There were complaints that there is impartial [unfair] treatment between people.

This process is impartial.