Sentences with phrase «achieving a more equal»

But over time either the funding / tax imposition could be lowered, or other uses of funds to achieve a more equal property - owning democracy could be considered.

It's essential that, in whatever form and place, the politics of radical social liberalism is kept alive and flourishes (which among other things recognises the role of the state in achieving a more equal society).

Mel West, co-editor of the review and head of Manchester University's school of education, says that schools in isolation are not going to be able to achieve a more equal outcome for pupils.

Langdon also hit out at proposals to introduce later and earlier court sitting hours, claiming they could wind back the clock on the work done by the profession to achieve a more equal gender balance at the Bar.

However, few would argue against the need for more work to be done in achieving a more equal housing market.

Not exact matches

Virtually the entire Bill of Rights has now been applied against the states, achieving three revolutionary results at once: 1) The original understanding of federalism has been obliterated, so that the states exercise their power now largely at the sufferance of the Supreme Court; 2) The Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of Section 1 have become a kind of witches» cauldron from which an exotic brew of postmodern nostrums has been fed into the bloodstream of the political culture; 3) The Supreme Court has successfully arrogated to itself more or less exclusive powers of constitutional interpretation.

To make the dough more manageable, divide the dough into 2 equal portions so that you can achieve the right size.

Their winning streak is already a record for all English league football but one more victory would see City equal the 19 in a row Guardiola achieved while in charge of Bayern Munich in 2013 - 14.

By joining together as Democrats, we will continue to fight to achieve the entirety of our bold agenda to make New York a fairer, safer, more equal state for all.»

Newton certainly chose his words carefully to achieve that objective, but in the light of his previous and subsequent behaviour it seems more than likely that, as Faulkner suggests, he took equal care with the hidden subtext.

Discomfort equals growth, and the more discomfort we endure, the more growth we can hope to achieve

At the same time, the district started looking more carefully at its achievement gap — questioning whether teachers had the tools necessary to ensure that all students had an equal opportunity to achieve, according to Alana Murray, a vice principal who helped launch the program with Yuhaniak.

More seriously, it may be that without unequal treatment, there is no way for them to achieve anything like equal status in the long run.»

First, just as the states refused to make good on the «equal» part of «separate but equal» after Plessy, for more than 40 years states have failed to provide equal access to the funding needed to achieve excellent schools for all children, largely because of a lack of federal accountability for equitable school funding.

This practice, diametrically opposed to that in Singapore, which outperforms the United States in reading in English in spite of the fact that nearly everyone in that city - state speaks a different language at home, has no chance of narrowing the gap in academic literacy with native English speakers; instead it will exacerbate it, to be followed by more civil rights pressure on our universities to lower their academic standards still further in an attempt to achieve equal outcomes, in a vicious cycle that will continue the degradation of America's civil and academic life.

By expanding school choice and providing more educational opportunities for every American family, we can help make sure that every child has an equal shot at achieving the American Dream.

Education is often touted as a means for boosting social mobility and making communities more equal, but inequality in school funding and resources has made that difficult to achieve, especially amid increasing poverty rates.

Like Frank (above — May 24th 2010) I like to move my stop to a break even position if a position achieves a profit level equal to the amount of risk originally taken, as I feel more comfortable protecting my capital with this approach.

Conversely, variable annuities — ones tied to rising and falling rates — offer the possibility of returns equal to those achieved via stocks or mutual funds, but with greater flexibility, more protections against loss, and certain tax advantages.

(One of the more nuanced aspects of hard - edge painting, achieved by Mosset, is the care and precision given to articulating surface space in a manner that is both contrary and equal to paintings that work exclusively with space created by the overt gesture.

(I) support for a free or low - cost detailed building energy audit that prescribes, as part of a energy - reducing measures sufficient to achieve at least a 20 percent reduction in energy use, by providing an incentive equal to the documented cost of such audit, but not more than $ 500, in addition to any award earned by achieving a 20 percent or greater efficiency improvement;

(I) support for a free or low - cost detailed building energy audit that prescribes measures sufficient to achieve at least a 20 percent reduction in energy use, by providing an incentive equal to the documented cost of such audit, but not more than $ 200, in addition to any earned by achieving a 20 percent or greater efficiency improvement;

The first 20 ppm achieves 1.5 degrees of heating, but it takes more than another 400 ppm to equal that.

Although there are are other ethically relevant facts that arguably should be considered in an allocation of ghg emissions such as economic capability to reduce emissions or historical emissions levels, these considerations are more controversial ethically particularly in regard to how they are operationalized in setting a numeric targets and therefore are more amenable to negotiated settlements on issues such as when convergence on equal per capita levels will be achieved rather than in setting basic allocation target levels.

You can see that with all other UN member states Canada committed to promote the rule of law at the national and international levels (a fairly general target — not too hard to achieve) and to ensure equal access to justice for all (much more concrete and challenging).

Providing equal access to appropriate civil legal assistance can help private funders achieve their objectives to: reduce the impact of domestic violence, increase access to employment, prevent homelessness, expand health care coverage and much more.

Before we conclude that the wheel has turned and equal sharing has been achieved, perhaps even exceeded, we should look more closely at the reiterated parenthetical comment in the preceding sentence and ask how much difference it makes that one justice is also the Chief Justice.

Campaign partners places far more reliance on programs to achieve the goals of equal access for equal need and equal health outcomes.

Instead, we place far more reliance on integrated approaches to achieve the goals of equal access for equal need and equal health outcomes.