Sentences with phrase «equal economic terms»

The filmmaker also pays careful attention to a white sharecropper who can not psychologically cope with the thought of being on equal economic terms with black farmers and is driven to terrifying, violent madness.

Not exact matches

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

All else equal, the stronger exchange rate would have a dampening influence on economic activity, although an important offset to this is the related improvement in the terms of trade and stronger global demand.

This may be reformulated in terms of the Golden Rule, found in various religions, and in terms of «irrevocable directives» concerning commitment to cultures of truth and tolerance, nonviolence and respect for life, economic justice, and equal rights and partnership between men and women.

He also faulted churches for coalescing around distinctions of class, race, education, and economic status rather than welcoming outcasts — represented in the biblical passage by «foreigners» and «eunuchs» — on equal terms with ourselves as children of God.

This is one of the reasons I baulk at the idea that I am somehow replaceable in the early years (indeed at all), that I am substitutable by another relative or a stranger and that I am «equal» only in terms of a capitalist game and economic agenda written by non-lactating males.

Often, these limitations are phased in superficially more equal terms, but the agreement only has a practical affect limiting a spouse's legal economic rights in marriage on the less affluent spouse, when it is recognized that one spouse is starting out affluent and the other spouse is starting out less affluent.

Profitability at the matter level can also be expressed in terms of the law firm economic model, in which profits equal the product of realization rate, average standard billing rate, leverage, margin and utilization.

[23] Advisory Council of Jurists & Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, Terms of Reference on the legal obligations of States for the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights, with respect to the right to education: Questionnaire for the Background Paper on the right to education, Response of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (12 May 2006), p 4 - 5.