Sentences with phrase «concept as a yardstick»

The Western countries are increasingly using their view of human rights concept as a yardstick to judge developing countries and to deal with economic and trade relations to extend development assistance.

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The Court of Appeal referred back to the seminal case of White v White [2001] 1 AC 596, [2001] 1 All ER 1, in which reference was made to the concept of the «yardstick of equality» which was introduced to ensure that there was no discrimination between the husband and the wife and their respective roles as money - earner and home - maker and child - carer.