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

But another great Greek thinker, Archimedes, argued that in this case, a distinction had to be made between different infinities: an infinitely large category on the one hand and a finite continuum on the other. —Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 July 2024

The boy debates the merit of each name: on the one hand, chrysalides are green and hard and prone to explode in riots of incandescence; on the other, parrots are green, loud, and obnoxious. —Beth Bachmann, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024

My dad [Anthony Perkins] was, on the one hand, a real shining light in the genre space, having created one of the more indelible characters in movies, nevermind in horror movies or in crime movies and killer movies. —Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024

Moving forward, there is a deep need to balance between the competing imperatives of sovereignty and security on the one hand, and openness and interoperability on the other. —Mirek Dušek, TIME, 26 June 2024