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evenhanded
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e·ven·hand·ed  (vn-hndd)
adj.
Showing no partiality; fair.

even·handed·ly adv.
even·handed·ness n.
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Adj.1.evenhanded - without partiality; "evenhanded justice"
equitable, just - fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience; "equitable treatment of all citizens"; "an equitable distribution of gifts among the children"


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In recent months American efforts in suppressing Shi'a militias and our comparative sectarian evenhandedness in places such as Tal Afar and Baghdad are persuading Sunnis that we are potential defenders against Shi'a violence.
If the international force robustly defended the border area against Hezbollah, which does after all have the support of most of the people living there, it will find itself on the receiving end of the attention that drove out Israel--unless it demonstrates evenhandedness by resisting Israeli incursions into Lebanon, which are in fact much more frequent than those going the other way.
His satiric evenhandedness casts the do-gooders on the tobacco issue as even more hateful, exemplified by the smarmy and repulsive Senator Finistirre, whose methods are every bit as cynical as Naylor's ("When you get a cancer kid on a TV show," he thunders at an aide, "he should be helpless
 
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