neutrality

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No one suspects the King of desiring the return of Liberals over Tories, or of favouring the Tory programme rather than the Liberal; and this neutrality is the surest guarantee of the continued popularity of the Crown For some years in the late 'seventies and early 'eighties of the nineteenth century Republicanism was the creed of many ardent working-class Radicals in England.

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  1. noun The state or policy of being neutral, especially nonparticipation in war.

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  • To give regular support to a squadron blockading a port, to revictual it, in one word, periodically, is to tread under foot the neutrality which is professed. —  The Life of Nelson, Vol. II
  • Saying you can vote for Lisbon and keep your neutrality is a bit like saying you will go to a rave party but you won't take any nasty pill cause you're so clean. —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
  • For those folks who support network neutrality, this is highly questionable, because it's clearly going against the basic principles of network neutrality -- but in a way no one will protest because they don't want to be seen as siding with child pornographers. —  Techdirt
  • JSR Adada reiterated that UNAMID is absolutely neutral in dealing with all parties involved, as this neutrality is the only way for the Mission to achieve its mandate. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • On Wednesday, InternetNews. com pleased with Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission Kenneth Corbin noted that Net neutrality could be a priority of the new FCC, writing, "In the technology plan Obama developed as a candidate, when Genachowski was his top IT adviser, Obama listed Net neutrality -- the principle that ISPs should not discriminate against traffic on their networks -- as his top priority." —  InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers
 

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  1. = French neutralité = Spanish neutralidad = Portuguese neutralidade = Italian neutralità = Dutch neutraliteit = German neutralität = Swedish Danish neutralitet, from Middle Latin neutralita (t-) s, a neutral condition, from Latin neutralis, neutral: see neutral.
 

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