Sentences with phrase «equal footing between»

Democracy in learning has the masses fully empowered to explore, create and share knowledge on equal footing between students, in the same way billions of people typically use the Web today.

Democracy in Education has the masses fully empowered to explore, create and share knowledge on equal footing between students, the same way billions of people typically use the Web today.

Not exact matches

I know there's that maxim that portfolio allocations should not be based on tax implications, but the difference between my REIT fund and a lower - tax fund like Vanguard's Large Cap ETF ($ VV) is so stark that it's making me think twice about holding them on equal footing.

Richard Bernstein calls this approach pluralistic: not a «flabby» pluralism, where we simply accept a variety of perspectives, vocabularies, paradigms, and language games, each on an equal footing; nor a «fortress - like» pluralism, where disparate groups work out of isolated frameworks and there is no communication between them; but rather an «engaged pluralism» where we acknowledge our fallibility and try to be responsive to the claims of others.

The Chinese Church is willing to be related to any overseas church or church organization which respects our three - self principle and treats us on an equal footing for the purpose of strengthening bonds between Chinese Christians and Christians abroad.

The Greek scholar Eratosthenes later came remarkably close to computing the size of the globe using the stadium, a standard of measurement equal to the length of an ancient Olympic footrace, which by modern calculations was between 607 and 738 feet.

You can start by first, stepping inside the bar and putting your feet in equal distant between the two bar handles.

Ideally, the features could put console and handheld gaming on equal footing, blurring the lines between the two and adding new dimensions to both.

In other words, a student in a classroom that prohibits computers is on equal footing with a peer who is in a class that allows computers and whose GPA is one third of a standard deviation higher — nearly the difference between a B + and A - average.

Imagined in a realm where relationships share equal footing in the virtual and real world — somewhere between online stalking, love letters, sexts and selfies.

Imagined in a realm where relationships share equal footing in the virtual and real world — one strung between online stalking, love letters, sexts, and selfies — Perry's sculptures and images incubate the public performance of private relationships.

Certainly, not all of the relationships between teachers and students turned out to work so well and happened to be on an equal footing, demonstrated by Buckminster Fuller and Kenneth Snelson's quarrel about the autorship of «Early X Piece».

VK: Furthermore, as the blog seeks to involve students, professors, curators, artists and everyone else interested as contributors on equal shares, it allows collaboration on an equal footing reflecting the hierarchy - free cooperation between students and teachers at Black Mountain College.

Research has shown that glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates, and Alaska, which has only 5 percent of the total ice Greenland has, lost a volume of ice equal to nine states 3 feet thick between 2004 and 2007 alone.

Given that, if one wants freedom of choice and an efficient market, shouldn't one accept a market solution (tax / credit or analogous system based on public costs, applied strategically to minimize paperwork (don't tax residential utility bills — apply upstream instead), applied approximately fairly to both be fair and encourage an efficient market response (don't ignore any significant category, put all sources of the same emission on equal footing; if cap / trade, allow some exchange between CO2 and CH4, etc, based CO2 (eq); include ocean acidification, etc.), allowing some approximation to that standard so as to not get very high costs in dealing with small details and also to address the biggest, most - well understood effects and sources first (put off dealing with the costs and benifits of sulphate aerosols, etc, until later if necessary — but get at high - latitude black carbon right away)?

If the plant one day becomes eligible for subsidies, regulators wrote, the PSC should calculate a value «to reflect the difference between upstate and downstate market revenues in order to put downstate facilities on an equal footing with upstate facilities.»

Such a scenario would have allowed the Court to differentiate between the different categories of association agreements and thus follow its «equal footing» approach.

To the extent that the presumption of advancement is applied differently between traditional marriages, common law relationships, and same - sex marriages, the continued application of the presumption of advancement is incoherent with the legislative objective of putting all such unions or marriages on an equal footing.

It is useful because it is honest; because it leaves not even the most obscure and friendless citizen without means of obtaining justice from a neighbouring State; because it obviates occasions of quarrels between States on account of the claims of their respective citizens; because it recognizes and strongly rests on this great moral truth that justice is the same whether due from one man or a million, or from a million to one man; because it teaches and greatly appreciates the value of our free republican national government, which places all our citizens on an equal footing, and enables each and every of them to obtain justice without any danger of being overborne by the weight and number of their opponents; and because it brings into action and enforces this great and glorious principle — that the people are the sovereign of this country, and consequently that fellow citizens and joint sovereigns can not be degraded by appearing with each other in their own courts to have their controversies determined.