fair play

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Fair-play, rather than any affection for France's 35-hour work week, motivated Parisot's comment; elsewhere, she reiterated Medef's conviction that the 2000 law that created the institution should simply be repealed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your mutiny once ended, and a little repented of, he is ready to be your gracious Prince again: Fair-play and the social wine-cup, or inexorable war and Lazy Peg, it is at your discretion which.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Carlyle, Thomas

Dougherty, King testified that "there was a law among the Fair-play men by which any man, who absented himself for the space of six weeks, lost his right to his improvement."

From The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography by Wolf, George D.

Paul applied to the Fair-play men who decided in favor of Paul.

From The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography by Wolf, George D.

He’ll range for days and ne’er be tired, O’er mountain, moor, or fell; Fair-play, I think, the dear wee chap Would fecht the deil himsel’.

From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon