from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Just and impartial; not prejudiced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. unbiased and impartial
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Judging fairly and justly; forming just and correct opinions; upright.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. of a person; just and impartial; not prejudiced
Sorry, no etymologies found.
A former justice minister, the soft-spoken Abdel Jalil was described as a "fair-minded technocrat" in a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
Urging the Hollywood censor to continue his work, Roosevelt wrote, “You are the kind of Czar that nobody could call ‘a Dictator’ because you are fair-minded and do not use a whip but still get things done for the general good.”
Looked at from the north of England – or indeed by any fair-minded observer – this is grossly unfair.
It's time for highlights, and the fair-minded Director reminds, I'm usually drawn to classic, timeless looks, but I can be adventurous if a piece really catches my eye.
Patrick Smith's "Passage to Peking" Oxford University Press, 591 pages, $34.95 , an acerbic and fair-minded study, examines an obscure historical episode from 1954, when left-wing sympathizers from the Labour Party set off to visit Mao's China, a trip that would likely never have taken place if not for what Mr. Smith calls the "affronted patriotism" of the British in the face of American power.
It is the fence-riders who struggle to seem fair-minded and accepting who present the most dangerous affront because they themselves may not even realize just how much their struggle with racist thinking affects everything that they say and do.
In Predator 2, the bad guys - for all their monomaniacal predatory focus - are fair-minded enough to honor a human prey's victory.
Then, if readers are still buying books in the bookstore, we will discover that they are doing so for other reasons -- because they appreciate books as physical objects, or appreciate us as writers, or find it tacky to give someone a printout or a hacked file as a gift, or just because they are generally cooperative and fair-minded people.
A reporter who thinks and speaks for himself, whose preeminent goal is providing deeper understanding, aspires even in political argument to persuade, which requires at the very least being seen as fair-minded and trustworthy by those — and this is the key — who are inclined to disagree with him.
Richmond seems a bright and fair-minded fellow, but he makes no bones about his political convictions or the purpose of his research and blogging.