But Mr. Smolnik argued that to be impartial, they needed to avoid contact with the families.
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This is the company built by algorithm, after all, and algorithms can be argued to be impartial.
The Moderates hit back that the letter was itself unfair electioneering from someone who ought to be impartial.
Lord Fowler who is the Chairman of the Communications Committee in the House of Lords also defended the BBC's efforts to be impartial in its news reporting.
In Britain and other countries where news broadcasters are required to be impartial, at least in theory, the convergence of television and the web makes such rules seem outdated.
Mr Yates was asked if he had a "cavalier" attitude towards the distress felt by those investigated after he described it as "uncomfortable" for them, he said he had taken an oath to be impartial and independent and had stuck by that.
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This led some to worry that he was too political to be an impartial intelligence chief.
The fund is supposed to be an impartial arbiter of good economic policy.
One Democratic hopeful, Howard Dean, the ex-governor of Vermont, has attracted the interest of many Arab-Americans by calling on America to be more impartial in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The question for Mr Davidson is whether he has permanently dented his ability to be - and be seen to be - an impartial chair.
Iranian or Chinese seismologists working within it are supposed to be as objective and impartial as, say, an Australian seismologist.
Mike Knights, campaigner against the incinerator, said he was "absolutely delighted" with the decision and said the public inquiry would be the "first opportunity for arguments to be heard by an impartial and independent body".
Critics, whose concerns have increased with the ferocity of the sanctions imposed, say that by acting simultaneously as investigator, prosecutor, jury and sentencing judge, the commission is denying defendant firms the basic right to be heard by an impartial tribunal.
"I don't think it will be easy to seat an impartial jury, " he said.
While O'Mara said he does not share those concerns, he told CNN the case may need to be moved out of Seminole County to get a fair and impartial jury.
The nuclear test ban, which the Clinton administration wants the Senate to ratify, is to be verified by such an "impartial" internationally staffed organization.
In particular, it states that EU citizens are entitled to a "fair and impartial procedure" before any measures can be taken to limit their net access.
The mayor of Villers-le-Bel, Didier Vaillant, appealed for calm and said he would ensure there was "an impartial investigation, for full light to be shed" on the accident.
To remain fair, honest and impartial in the representation of news and opinions, giving all sides an opportunity to be heard and correcting all distortions.
He said his investigation would be impartial, and that he would focus on up to six people who he said were most to blame for the violence.
Newspapers need not be totally impartial, but I believe it behoves The Economist at least to get its facts straight.
The British high commissioner, Christian Turner, told Kenyan media that the UK would "remain impartial" but warned that the new government "must be ready to cooperate with ICC".
The researchers took it a step further and showed a film of the game to students who had not attended the actual football game, in hopes they could be more impartial.
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While both 'yes' and 'no' camps may want a definitive result to put an end to debate, those taking an impartial position as academic observers reckon that it may merely be the starting point for a new phase.
But stressing that her office was independent and impartial, the ombudsman said she realised that there were cases where allegations against officers proved to be false.
But consensus seems to be evolving towards having him tried by an Iraqi court rather than an international one, provided a sufficiently impartial panel of judges can be found.
Although a country might, under certain circumstances, choose to rely to some extent on another country for military intelligence, this is less likely to be the case when the second country is doing its monitoring not as an ally, but as an impartial or neutral observer, as would be the status of any U.S. forces deployed on the Golan under an Israeli-Syrian agreement.
In both cases, staff have a duty to provide counselling to the women who use them - and under Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' guidelines that advice should be impartial, objective and unbiased.
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