0 a neutral position, especially in a war:
The Queen has maintained political neutrality throughout her reign.
Sweden isn't likely ever to abandon its traditional neutrality.
1 the condition of being neutral in a disagreement or war
Intertwined with domestic uproar, the country was polarized by the question of neutrality.
On the other hand, the judge's role is shaped by the normative obligation of neutrality as reconciled with the practical demands for efficiency.
There can be no neutrality between justice and cruelty, between the innocent and the guilty.
Viewed against these alternatives, it appears that "neutrality" itself is a contested and indeed a highly partisan position.
For example, the neutrality of glides always entails the neutrality of liquids but not vice versa.
They received no support, only neutrality and opposition from the ' reds ' - socialists, anarchists and syndicalists alike.
It points to the same ' affective neutrality' and lack of human sympathy that plagued all nineteenth-century colonial enterprises.
The present items were chosen from those descriptions and were modified to provide clarity and gender neutrality.
