partiality
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"There is no evidence of bad faith, malice, corruption, fraud, partiality, or any want of integrity on the part of Referee Mark Lyson," the commission added.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Last month, he suggested that Cannon's "partiality" would get her removed from the case.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
Thus, judicial remarks during the course of a trial that are critical or disapproving of, or even hostile to, counsel, the parties, or their cases, ordinarily do not support a bias or partiality challenge.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2023
“The I.R.S. is not aware of any reports of improper bias or partiality in the conduct of an officeholder’s examination in the more than 40-year history of the mandatory procedures,” it said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
In his play The Frogs, the conservative Aristophanes makes repeated sneering references to Euripides’ partiality for books.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Out of all the bizarre vampire partialities presented as humdrum on "What We Do In the Shadows," the Staten Island housemates' unconventional, looser approach to intimacy is distinctive if not singular.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2023
They inevitably involve "animosities, partialities, influence and interest."
From Time Magazine Archive
They are in general as blind and as pertinacious in their partialities as in their dislikes; seldom bestowing much judgment in either, but acting according to the impulses of their warm passions and flexibility.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
"The sympathies and partialities of the people of Louisiana began to manifest themselves strongly in favour of the French patriots, principally in New-Orleans."
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
They felt that he was fighting their battle and doing their work; and, making allowance for local jealousies and accidental partialities, they never ceased to regard him thus.
From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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