fairplay

It is true he had a hard battle for it; but if he had ungenerous detractors who hated everything not English, he had more numerous friends and supporters; and perhaps in no country in the world would a foreigner like him have obtained such fairplay in the race.

1881, G.S. Godkin, “Antonio Panizzi”, in Helen Mathers, editor, The Burlington: A High-class Monthly Magazine, volume 2, page 44

We ask for the creation of a Government Department which will control the hampering influences of landlords, who are the absolute monopolists of our soil and all our mineral wealth, and for the purpose of giving our mines such fairplay as will tend to the enormous development of our mineral interests.

1891, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Debates (Authorized Edition), page 1183

Your whole idea, Mr. Sarnoff, is to leave to the sense of fairplay of broadcasters this problem of giving a proper and adequate hearing to the so-called minor parties?

1962, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Problems of the Softwood Lumber Industry, page 66

A sense of fairplay would dictate that 2 years is more than a reasonable period of time for this study to be completed and for Congress then to take such action as it deems right and proper.

1968, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 26603

And I hope our Presidency has been one of decency, a sense of honor, a sense of fairplay, and I'm just going to continue to emphasize these themes.

1993, George Bush, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, page 404