Sentences with phrase «mean equal partnership»

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If the broadening of options in our society continues, as it seems likely to do, then equal partnership will mean different things for different people.

«We believe that personal independence and equal human rights can never be forfeited, except for crime; that marriage should be an equal and permanent partnership, and so recognized by law; that until it is so recognized, married partners should provide against the radical injustice of present laws, by every means in their power...»

It also is holistic, searches for equal partnership and egalitarian scholarships, searching for an inclusive imagery for God, it is contextual and liberation theology and it searches for a new anthropology.18 Judith Plaskow summarizes women's experience as: «it means simply.

In short, Russia's leaders don't wish to join the EU because it would mean accepting their nation is no longer a great power, entering into an equal partnership with a number of former colonies, and sharing sovereignty with perceived enemies in Paris and Berlin.

Karen Mapp, a Harvard lecturer whose research specialty is partnerships that support better educational outcomes for kids, told guests at the Children's Institute's annual luncheon on Friday that building successful schools means engaging families as equal partners — not as clients, not as supplements to the educational process and not as people who need saving.

From the Aboriginal community's perspective, real engagement means to be regarded and treated as an equal to be able to make resource development decisions and building a relationship that means more than just a business partnership.»

A partnership does mean an exchange of equals, rather than someone who's coming in and saying «I'm the expert educator, I know what you should do, you should listen to me», we're reversing that idea to say a partnership is about a respectful relationship of equals where we make shared decisions, where we listen carefully to each other in the best interests of children and their families.

It means that even today, when couples marry with the desire to have an equal partnership, we still think of marriage in terms of a woman's role and a man's role — that's why we tend to have «his» and «her» marriages.