a fair hearing
noun
: a consideration of statements or arguments from both sides of an issue
They agreed to give both sides a fair hearing.
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Wilson suggested in a video statement Wednesday that the plan had not received a fair hearing in the state Senate, where Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) had wielded her powerful role leading a key committee to block the deal from receiving a hearing or a vote.
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Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
Charter schools that provide meaningful alternatives in failing districts should not expect a fair hearing if Angulo is elected.
—East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
Although those longings deserve a fair hearing, your eventual choices must work in the present.
—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
As his representatives argued passionately for a fair hearing, Pakistan’s ex-Prime Minister retrieved his eyeglasses, unfolded a newspaper, and did his utmost to ignore the surrounding commotion.
—TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
Cost also gives more than a fair hearing to the critics of judicial review (including Madison, Jefferson, and Lincoln) in light of the capacity of nationwide Supreme Court fiats to short-circuit the system’s features for gradually building consensus.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
The loss of media credibility in the Trump era is an old story but isn’t there any journalistic interest in at least allowing a non-Trump alternative to receive a fair hearing?
—James Freeman, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2023
But where a union leader’s cause gets a fair hearing, Bertha’s staging of a pivotal dinner party gets an entire dramatic arc, with the string-laden score hitting a crescendo as a fleet of servants rolls out a soup course.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 29 Oct. 2023
In June, a judge granted a motion to seal evidence in the criminal case after Lester’s attorneys told the court their client had received death threats and that publicity could hinder his ability to get a fair hearing.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
Charter schools that provide meaningful alternatives in failing districts should not expect a fair hearing if Angulo is elected.
—East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
Although those longings deserve a fair hearing, your eventual choices must work in the present.
—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
As his representatives argued passionately for a fair hearing, Pakistan’s ex-Prime Minister retrieved his eyeglasses, unfolded a newspaper, and did his utmost to ignore the surrounding commotion.
—TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
Cost also gives more than a fair hearing to the critics of judicial review (including Madison, Jefferson, and Lincoln) in light of the capacity of nationwide Supreme Court fiats to short-circuit the system’s features for gradually building consensus.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
The loss of media credibility in the Trump era is an old story but isn’t there any journalistic interest in at least allowing a non-Trump alternative to receive a fair hearing?
—James Freeman, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2023
But where a union leader’s cause gets a fair hearing, Bertha’s staging of a pivotal dinner party gets an entire dramatic arc, with the string-laden score hitting a crescendo as a fleet of servants rolls out a soup course.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 29 Oct. 2023
In June, a judge granted a motion to seal evidence in the criminal case after Lester’s attorneys told the court their client had received death threats and that publicity could hinder his ability to get a fair hearing.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
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