even-handed
Example Sentences
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The US and Saudi mediators are high-level and even-handed.
From BBC
"It's very balanced and even-handed on political issues or sensitive topics, but also sometimes it can be funny and silly and creative," Suleyman said.
From Reuters
But repeating it with a full awareness of the stakes, liberated from the supposedly even-handed frame of polarization, could instead be liberating.
From Salon
The Federalist essays are not even-handed discussions of constitutional issues, but advocacy pieces with a very definite slant and a distinctly weighted point of view, one that in literary studies could be termed an "unreliable narrator."
From Salon
The trials were controversial at the time but ended up being hailed as a milestone on the path toward establishing international law and holding war criminals accountable in even-handed trials.
From Reuters
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