Sentences with phrase «idea of equality»

Measure 6 proposes an overly simplistic idea of equality rather than considering a result best for the children in a particular family.

By picking a few winners, the Race to the Top competition abandoned the traditional idea of equality of educational opportunity, where federal aid favored districts and schools that enrolled students with the highest needs.

Here, you had an example of a Southerner who spoke out against slavery during the war and who later became an activist for civil rights and this new idea of equality for all people regardless of one's skin call, race or creed.

And some of us are troubled by the shallow reasoning that has dominated the political discussions surrounding this move, as though the threadbare idea of equality were enough to settle every question concerning the long - term destiny of mankind and as though the writings of the anthropologists (not to mention the poets, the philosophers, the theologians, the novelists, the sociologists) counted for nothing beside the slogans of Stonewall.

The Christian idea of equality avoids the incoherence in Tinder's system.

The question used to hurt, but as you can see in Mike Tauber's photos, we are the new face of America and its noble ideas of equality and freedom.»

Misunderstood or poorly understood ideas of equality, equity, or justice, when enacted in policy, can inadvertently harm certain groups of students.

At the conclusion of the book Otto asks, «will we take up the mantle of freedom and leadership that science gave us — the commitment to knowledge over the assertions of «but faith or opinion'that led us to the disquieting idea of equality that is the foundation of our democracy?»

Instead, the Bill proposes an overly simplistic idea of equality: rather than considering a fair result best for the children involved in the case at hand, children must be split right down the middle.

Off hand, she mentioned that she feels like we need to create pipelines for people to move towards God's idea of equality and justice.

If there is any greater proof needed of the ruling spirit of the «idea of equality» in our time than the story attached to the Obamas» dog, I can't imagine what it would be.

Moreover, the idea of equality, on reflection, turns out not to be a simple one, so that the meaning of the democratic social ideal needs to be examined and defined.

So familiar has this idea of the equality of all persons before God now become that it is difficult to project one's thought back into a time when it was a new and startling experience to talk seriously with a woman about her soul (John 4:7 - 27), or to set a child in the midst and say, «To such belongs the kingdom of heaven» (Matt.

Conjuring visions of unholy empires and feudal bondage, Bell proclaims that «the idea of equality never gained a solid foothold in continental Europe,» which remains plagued by a temptation to «unitary rule.»

In any case, we either all enjoy «equal justice under the law», whether male or female, and no matter how large or small, athlete or not, or we just toss the idea of equality out the window and say that it's all going to be arbitrary.

Ideas of equality and secularism were spread in the same time.

And while they might change in the future, it was best to let society slowly warm to the idea of equality, or to finally make good on its promises to grant civil rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens.

That is before you even consider the pervasive images of bottles on the Government website promoting the idea of the equality utopia, as though its own NHS guidance (and the compelling public health basis for it) does not exist.

«I am walking another path, the path of making reality the principle of the rule of law, the idea of equality of every citizen before the law.

The most utopian talk about an attack on the asymmetries of power that blight British society; some are even picking up the idea of equality of capabilities, drawn from the philosophy of Amartya Sen, pursued by James Purnell and Liam Byrne.

The ESSA incorporates the idea of equity into its policy orientation, and based on the reasoning above, equity seems to be «fairer» than the idea of equality.

The ideas of equality and equity are often misunderstood and misused.

They've got a team of knowledgeable trainers who work with their adoptable dogs on the farm or where they're needed elsewhere, as well as dedicated educators who travel around the country to share the idea of equality for «pit bull» dogs and progressive thinking when it comes to getting dogs adopted.

More than ever, artists were condemned and even prosecuted, especially after the infamous attempts of particular political mechanisms to discredit, enable or even destroy art which embraced the ideas of equality, solidarity, modernization, and emancipation.

Unfortunately, White argues, Saint Francis's revolutionary attempt to «substitute the idea of the equality of all creatures, including man, for the idea of man's limitless rule of creation» failed.

But it turns out that the idea of equality — treating like cases alike and how we know what counts as being alike — is basic to legal thinking.

Moreover, it is likely to create tensions with national law, and the idea of the equality of all citizens.

It is only fair to share in the richness of the land with the idea of equality in the treatment of Aboriginal people.

The idea of equality itself entrenches systemic discrimination.

But where much of the advice on creating work / life balance goes wrong is around the idea of equality.