How to Use partiality in a Sentence

partiality

noun

• Prior to 2019, the contract was managed by the county courts, but it was transferred to the city to avoid the appearance of partiality.
  — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2021
• But sports have rarely been about honesty and have always been about partiality.
  — Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2022
• But even as the genre draws from all around it, the real marvel of lo-fi hip-hop on YouTube is its partiality to minimalism.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
• There is the same partiality for native plantings, plus plants that thrive in briny air, and other landscaping tricks to support resilience; the platform on which much of the park is built is ready for the next flood.
  — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 30 June 2018
• Buyers have displayed a partiality for in-person tours of the properties in recent months.
  — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• With a partiality to place names established, here's an all-time standout among place names: ancient (like the species itself), profound, palpable, vast, strong, even as present-day tragedy makes the word ache.
  — Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2017
• Large arbitration groups, such as the AAA, do have codes of conduct that prohibit such partiality.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Roy DeCarava was a mentor, one whose influence on Bey is plain in his partiality to shadow and contrast.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• One of the interesting properties of Phutball is that any move could be played by either player, the only partiality in the game being the rule for determining the winner.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2015
• Among the many costs of the department’s laxity toward Hillary Clinton in 2016 is that any enforcement of the law against Trump now will be seen, with some justification, as partiality.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• The theorists feel great crimes have been committed but—by reason of the instability of language, and the partiality of those who speak it—there can be no possibility of an indictment.
  — Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Some legal scholars who have studied the impact of empathy on court decision making have found it as a necessary factor for avoiding partiality.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2022
• This tension, between the objectives of the historian and the advocate, runs throughout Mr. Robertson’s book, lending it both interest and partiality.
  — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• Our current chancellor is committed to using his authority without any partiality other than what is in the best interests of students and the school system overall.
  — Alejandra Matos, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• Despite the potential partiality, seven jurors were seated by Tuesday’s lunch break.
  — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
• Even a perception of partiality can dampen employee morale.
  — Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, Cincinnati.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• O’Toole’s is a wildly ambitious project, one that accounts for inevitable partiality precisely through this invocation of the personal.
  — Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• O’Toole’s is a wildly ambitious project, one that accounts for inevitable partiality precisely through this invocation of the personal.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
• Six of the seven justices weighed in with questions during the oral arguments, some seemingly in support of a new custody hearing by a different judge and some concerned about invading judges' discretion in assessing their own partiality.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2020
• From a legal standpoint, the appearance of partiality is key, and defense lawyers pointed to the flurry of news coverage surrounding McSpadden's remarks, as well as internet comments as evidence of the public perception of bias.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 22 May 2018
• True, judges are ethically obligated to avoid the perception of partiality.
  — Nathan L. Kinard, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
• Not even its partiality to Hillary Clinton in 2016, fear-driven, came anywhere near the obsequious pampering accorded to Obama, lest any disclosure, misstep, or hint of criticism be allowed to threaten his historic ascent.
  — Matthew Scully, National Review, 9 Oct. 2017
• To allow a white patron to idle indefinitely while simultaneously calling the police to remove black patrons by force in two minutes is more than mere unwitting partiality.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Apr. 2018
• So deep is her partiality that during a virtual Q&A with press earlier in the day, Paulson became noticeably agitated by a reporter’s assessment of Tripp’s unlikability in the series — and in life.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• The common denominator of many of its viral moments is an unspoken partiality to Black cultural expression.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
• Those include proving misconduct, fraud or partiality by an arbitrator — not necessarily the merit of the decision or interpretation of the facts.
  — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 10 June 2017
• Few things communicate partiality as strongly as a celebration of the Confederates.
  — Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 12 May 2017
• But from an ethical standpoint, there’s not a good reason for absolute partiality, where a country covers every one of its citizens before giving any vaccine internationally.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2020
• However, Johnson says her partiality for sunglasses started during childhood, first as a reaction to certain insecurities before growing simply into a love for styling them.
  — Jamila Stewart, Essence, 10 May 2021
• Such an arrangement is inherently vulnerable to bias and partiality.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 17 Dec. 2017

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