Sentences with phrase «equal footing rather»

Mr. Astorino, for reasons that aren't clear, refused to participate in the radio debate, which at the least would have attracted heavy newspaper coverage of the one opportunity the Governor was offering him to go one - on - one on equal footing rather than taking body blows from Mr. Cuomo's far superior campaign war chest.

Not exact matches

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.

Copts hoped that such a state» founded upon nationality rather than religion» would set them on an equal footing with Muslims.

It seems the point is really to have a feeling of control or even to make EU citizens jumps through hoops for the sake of affirming that being working in the UK is a privilege rather than a right EU citizens have on an equal footing with British citizens so a symbolic rather than a practical distinction.

Rather, it's to present them simply as combatants who happen to be women fighting alongside their male counterparts on equal footing.

Rather, he situates them on equal footing and demonstrates the extent to which color and form are inextricably intertwined in Cézanne's praxis.»

Instead, focusing on the equal footing criterion, the Court opted for a rather unpredictable ad - hoc approach, which might be considered beneficial for academics and people interested in EU law in general, since it generates more case - law, but which is surely not beneficial to legal certainty.