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with justice or fairness to all- equitable treatment of all citizens
- It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character: to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- an equitable distribution of gifts among the children
- It was, to my mind, a very fair and equitable distribution.Agatha Christie -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- ...enthusiasm, which he distributed on the equitable principle of praising those things most which were most in need of praise.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- I shall be happy to make an equitable arrangement respecting the fees which have been paid in advance for the current term.George Bernard Shaw -- An Unsocial Socialist
- "Nicole and I will talk things over," said Dick equitably.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
- Could an equitable God have allowed such a thing?Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- Indeed, according to a study by who, Cuba had the world's most equitably distributed medicine.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- They could protect themselves from equitable sacrifices or, in emergencies, to extort unreasonable indulgences.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- The matter was settled at the time, and by the competent authorities,—equitably, it is to be presumed,—and, at all events, irrevocably.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- Some ill-conditioned growling fellow may say to me, 'What's the use of these legal and equitable abuses?Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- No: it is to hold up motor cars and secure a more equitable distribution of wealth.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- An equitable trade agreement with Britain was much the most important and pressing objective.David McCullough -- John Adams
- Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- I pray some equitable exchange of captives can be arranged before too very long.George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
- This would neither be equitable as it respected New York nor safe as it respected the other States.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- Early in the day, these architects had made an equitable division of their duties.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
- It would seem a fair and equitable way to run a world.Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
- But I had a lot on my mind and wasn't feeling particularly equitable.Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush