on the one hand

idiom

variants or on one hand

—used to introduce a statement that is followed by another contrasting statement which is typically introduced with on the other hand

On the one hand, I think the price is fair, but on the other hand, I really can't afford to spend that much money.

On one hand, there is the historical, real person—George Washington the President—but on the other hand, there is the legendary person—George Washington the cherry-tree chopper.

—Anthony Hollingsworth

Examples of on the one hand in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The result is a situation in which, on the one hand, the Arizona Department of Education annually publishes detailed report cards on all public schools in the state, including charter schools. —Eli Hager, ProPublica, 31 Dec. 2024

So on the one hand this seems like a culmination of a period of work, but also something totally new. —Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024

How are the trends around unionization and greater investment in internal culture, on the one hand, and shorter tenures and more fractional work, on the other, interacting? —Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024

This confrontation becomes much more interesting when it is incarnated by on the one hand, the patriarchy, and on the other hand, the defiance, the resistance, the integrity of these incredible young women of the new generation in Iran. —Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024