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neutral

Treating both sides equally. A judge in a trial must be neutral. The referees in international matches are from neutral countries. I think this new wording is more neutral than the old wording. The newest wording is the most neutral of all.

neutral

(= impersonal) having no personal preference impersonal criticism a neutral observer (= inert, indifferent) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive inert matter an indifferent chemical in a reaction not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest having no net electric charge lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics a neutral personality that made no impression whatever possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute having no hue neutral colors like black or white

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Simple sentences

That country remained neutral throughout World War II.
Switzerland is a neutral country.
The Japanese government takes a neutral attitude on the matter.
When investigating the pH (acidic, neutral, alkaline) of a liquid, don't soak the litmus paper completely in the liquid but just put the end of the paper in it.
A schwa represents a neutral vowel.
In the development of Lojban, efforts were consistently made since the initial phase to keep the language culturally neutral.
German has a gender system, every noun has a gender: male, female, or neutral.
Tom is neutral.
The Swiss were neutral in the war.
Switzerland was neutral in the war.
Brothers Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood has a neutral gender, while Charles Perrault's has a masculine one.
I'm neutral.

Movie subtitles

That's large-format barrels, neutral oak.
Thank heavens we shall be in neutral territory.
Rick is neutral about everything.
You weren't always so carefully neutral.
Tatania's on both sides at once and therefore neutral.
The Germans have shelled hospitals, bombed open towns, sunk neutral ships, used poison gas. and we won.
I'm strictly neutral.
In times like this, how can you be neutral?
A neutral civilian.
With me it's automatic to shift in the neutral before I cut the motor.
And in what position was the bell crank, in neutral, in drive or reverse?
This is a neutral coast.
So. So, Captain Langsdorff has told me to tell you that as we are in the neutral country of Uruguay according to international law, you will all be set free tomorrow!
If we open fire within the River Plate, we'll be accused of violating neutral territory. Think what little Goebbels will make of it. Well, it's up to you, sir.
It's time for me to change the points. We shall be in neutral territory.
Titania's on both sides at once and, therefore, neutral.
Let's talk about something neutral.
One can no longer be neutral.
I am strictly neutral politically.
With me, it's automatic to shift into neutral before I cut a motor.
In neutral, in drive or reverse?
Even if we remain neutral.
Now it's McCoy on the run and Bender in pursuit. McCoy is in a neutral corner.
Rick is completely neutral about everything.
You were not always so carefully neutral.
I am neutral, you understand.
But if I were to remove this cotter pin and uncouple this shifting rod, a very simple operation, as you can see, then no matter what you do with the shift lever, the bell crank remains as it was, in drive, neutral or reverse, wherever it may happen to be.
But we have nothing to fear from the Tartar, my friend, we are French journalists, neutral journalists.
You forget that you are a neutral country.
The French do not know remain neutral, Mr. Korpanoff, lack of habit probably.
You have nothing to fear. You are in a neutral country.
Neutral, I had only.
A neutral shade. The tweed then.
In Berlin, the Axis had determined on a show of strength in the Aegean Sea to bully neutral Turkey into coming into the war on their side.
I'm neutral.
As neutral as the street. You talk and I listen.

News and current affairs

Neutral foreign observers should be asked to be deployed in major hot spots and be asked to identify anyone on either side who violates any of the agreement's clauses.
Yet, on the other hand, reason is more than a neutral problem-solving tool.
The tools that they provide are politically neutral.
COPENHAGEN - Copenhagen, Denmark's capital, wants to be the world's first CO2-neutral city by 2025.
Europe's financial industry wants a cost-effective, transparent, and competitively neutral supervisory framework that will foster market integration, create greater financial stability, and provide for crisis management.
If this is right, the sociopolitical impact of a change in the ethnic composition of a population is neutral, or even beneficial.
Moreover, Blanchard fails to note that the preference for leisure is not gender-neutral.
Even taking a generous view, the best that can be said is that the system is neutral insofar as redistribution is concerned, because the wealthiest pay more taxes and use more university services.
Overall, the eurozone's fiscal stance is set to be broadly neutral this year, according to the European Commission, albeit with further squeezes in Ireland, France, and Italy.
But, given the combination of massive monetary support, a now-neutral fiscal stance, a steep fall in oil prices, and a depreciated euro, it is the least we could expect, and it will bring per capita GDP back only to its 2008 level.
But in times of crisis, the voice of the neutral technocrat gains greater legitimacy.
Such agreements normally include a clause creating a mandate for neutral third-party monitors.
No institutional solution is purely neutral in its effects on relative incomes - and it is relative income and wealth around which political debate typically revolves.
Why is excluding a reference to God any more neutral than including God?
Here, too, it makes sense to have the ECB in charge as a neutral arbiter with respect to these opposing interests.
Preventing this requires political will, especially within the EU, which all too often seems to favor playing a neutral role.
Germany's not-so-secret ambition is to become a Magna Helvetia, a Big Switzerland - prosperous, stable, neutral, and ultimately irrelevant.
The more distant and neutral to the European project Germany becomes, the more its partners, especially France, must behave like engaged and responsible Europeans.
The irony is that, while America's pursuit of a stronger defense relationship with India is aimed largely at offsetting an increasingly assertive China, US President Barack Obama has charted a neutral course in Sino-Indian disputes.
In the past few decades, it has become conventional for equity investors to base their decisions on neutral benchmarks determined by the market capitalization of companies and indices.
But European social solidarity too often has pursued its objectives through economically costly direct interventions in labor markets rather than in more market-neutral ways.
So it is no surprise that these advances are providing valuable insights into the field of evolutionary biology as well, including evidence supporting the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution that I developed in 1973.
Kimura examined the rate of evolutionary change of proteins and proposed the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968.
Kimura's theory was simple and elegant, but the classification of mutations into the distinct classes - beneficial, neutral, or harmful - seemed too simple to me.
This insight was the basis of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution.
These are thought to provide flexibility in how proteins function, in a way that may be connected to nearly-neutral mutations.
Even then, German policy in the Middle East continued to reflect a domestic consensus that Germany's responsibility for Israel's security must be balanced with an effort to remain neutral in the region's affairs.

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