Thus it was no surprise that despite an earlier pledge not to permit an unfair election this month, Mr. Khatami eventually capitulated to Ayatollah Khamenei and is allowing Friday's charade to go ahead.
Poland says the EU's distribution of CO2 emission permits is unfair because it uses gas-based benchmarks.
However, I will permit myself an unfair opinion.
The farmers said it was unfair to permit rich hunters to go on killing lions for sport when peasants were prevented from protecting their precious livestock.
Some of Deutsche Telekom's potential rivals in the United States have urged lawmakers to step in, maintaining that it would be unfair to permit entry in the United States of a foreign company that enjoys the backing of a foreign government.
The line of reasoning might be morally objectionable ("give a dog a bad name and hang him for it") or it might be unfair to permit the drawing of the inference when the opponent was not given a fair opportunity to challenge it (as in the hearsay situation) (Ho 2008: chs. 5, 6).
It seems grossly unfair to permit a horse to sit out the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness, or both, and then swoop in and run in the Belmont, all rested and fresh, against a horse that has recently run two difficult races.
Judge King again denied the motion last year, writing, "Wells Fargo deliberately chose to pursue a strategy of litigation... it would be unfair to permit Wells Fargo to effectively 'wait in the weeds' and invoke arbitration… now that the alternate path the bank chose did not turn out as it had hoped".
He invoked an unusual provision of California law that permits individuals to file unfair trade cases as "private attorneys general".
On the other side, a proponent of capital punishment might retort that society should not permit murderers to gain an unfair advantage over their victims through an act of murder; so even though we humans have no power to achieve perfect justice in this matter, we can at least prevent this additional injustice and, in addition, even the score a bit.
