partiality

Example Sentences

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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 Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for the First Department unanimously affirmed Cohen’s decision in October 2020, ruling the Orioles failed to establish evident partiality in the second arbitration panel.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2023

He is the second judge to take charge of the investigation after a legal complaint against the partiality of his predecessor Fady Sawan saw him removed in February.

From Reuters • Dec. 7, 2021

All John Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sisters’ proud indifference, all his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë