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[ adverb ] from one point of view
Synonyms Examples "on the one hand, she is a gifted chemist" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)On_the_one_hand , there is a sense of not having moved beyond the ambiance of their high_school . (James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)In those vocational_programs organized with Smith-Hughes money , there may be a close tie between the labor_union and a local employer on_the_one_hand and the vocational teacher on the other . (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)On_the_one_hand , he does not work for a large agency , but is almost always self-employed . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)As a consequence of the tensions thus produced in his thoughts and feelings , he wrote on_the_one_hand sketches of idealized hunting trips and on_the_other an anecdote of the village of Hardscrabble , Arkansas , where no one had ever seen a piano ; and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor , `` The_Big_Bear_of_Arkansas '' , in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature . (U.S. Reports. Volume 366. Cases Adjudged in the...)Both plans also prohibited common directors , officers , or employees between du_Pont , Christiana , and Delaware , on_the_one_hand , and General_Motors on_the_other . Related terms |
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