Sentences with phrase «given equal validity»

My only caveat to analogies like this and the oft used elephant example (thank you for not using that tired analogy) is that we have to be careful that we do not allow contradictory perceptions to be given equal validity.

Not exact matches

To take the example always used by those arguing for the «common school,» religious tolerance can be taught without necessarily giving the message that all religious views are of equal validity.

She once suggested pregnant prisoners should be shackled to their beds whilst giving birth, and claimed gay lifestyles did not have «equal validity» to the «preferred model» of heterosexual marriage.

The taxpayer argued that the London Pass (giving access, as it did, to 55 different attractions) could be regarded as if it were 55 individual passes, each having a face value equal to the normal gate price of the particular attraction to which it related, and each being valid only for between one and six days corresponding to the period of validity of the actual pass purchased by a customer.

Giving providers assurance that guidelines can be used only in their favor may be an important step toward gaining their support; but allowing such one - sided use of evidence in a court of law raises disturbing questions of fairness and of validity under the U.S. Constitution's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments» due process and equal protection mandates, and under state constitutional principles as well.