Sentences with phrase «more equal footing»

In most families, there is a movement during adolescence from patterns of influence and interaction that are asymmetrical and unequal to ones in which parents and their adolescent children are on a more equal footing.

Marriage and family counseling can be a real boon to couples that are on more equal footing, but like anything else, it's important to find the right person.

Eliot Burdett, the CEO of U.S. employment company Peak Sales Recruiting, said bringing pay out of the shadows would put women on a more equal footing with men.

Young lawyers should identify a developing area of law that interests them, and try to find something there — where they may have a bit more equal footing with more experienced lawyers, Fontaine tells Ward.

This move will help to place both parents on a more equal footing.»

It removes the façade, putting us back on more equal footing with our fellow planetary inhabitants.

This small, 60 - year survey puts Parsons's art on a much more equal footing with her achievement as a dealer and even with the work of the giants she represented.

[In addition to those working in New York City,] Women of Abstract Expressionism also sheds light on the unique experiences of artists based in the Bay area on the West Coast where they were on a more equal footing with their male counterparts than those working in New York.

Women of Abstract Expressionism also sheds light on the unique experiences of artists based in the Bay Area on the West Coast where they were on a more equal footing with their male counterparts than those working in New York.

The roster will be packed with 20 characters and big balance changes will make put them on an even more equal footing.

-- but they're on more equal footing with you than the trash mob zombies you've been killing in other games.

In PvP game play, the damage that weapons inflict is more balanced and flattened, so that all players are on a more equal footing — except in the hypercompetitive Iron Banner mode.

But it actually puts the two options on a more equal footing by using the same amount of pretax dollars.

Maybe this will be what brings the Sony Reader back into more equal footing with the Kindle and nook?

You are right that agency pricing does to some extent protect independent booksellers, or allow them to compete on more equal footing with Amazon, and I am as much in favor of a competitive bookselling marketplace as I think you are.

The new covers will allow authors not only a choice, but a more equal footing in print sales, especially for those authors who order books for signings or who have made arrangements for their books to be sold in brick - and - mortar bookstores.

Flipped instruction puts students with learning disabilities on more equal footing for effective classroom participation.

The characters in Eyes Wide Shut are on much more equal footing than those in Phantom Thread, but Phantom Thread is also very smart about how there are certain situations where Alma has power over Reynolds, when you might expect him to have more power over her.

The state's Business Council praises parts of the bill, saying the lowering of the corporate tax rate «corrects years of inequity» and puts the nation on a «more equal footing» with the rest of the world.

Some might believe that three seasons with a more equal footing is too long, they may say where we're at now proves he should have went early.

This is a big equalizer in terms of putting renter households on a more equal footing with single - family homeowners.

Not exact matches

And talking about how to put people on more equal economic footing can be challenging to reconcile with capitalist principles of private ownership and free markets.

A few years later, after its transition from DVDs - by - mail to streaming was better established, it had a stronger foundation to build the original content that put it on an equal footing with rivals, like Time Warner's HBO, in luring customers and to build pricing power for a more profitable future.

Amazon, in a request for proposals on its website, said it wants its «HQ2» to be the «equal» of its Seattle base of operations, which currently consists of 33 buildings covering more than 8 million square feet of office space.

Accordingly, he suggests not only that Christians should be allowed to contribute to today's academic debates on an equal footing with, say, Marxists or feminists — a goal most Christian academics would applaud, as would I — but also ventures the more dubious suggestion that a Christian perspective may transform the relativism that bedevils today's scholarship and provide a more dependable foundation for knowing and believing.

Australia does not want more access than anybody else, «we just want to compete with other countries on an equal footing», says Meat and Livestock Australia boss, Richard Norton.

Really for past two seasons Wenger and Mourinho were on equal footing more or less financially, but Mourinho is closer to winning the PL then Wenger is.

I may defend Wenger a lot in transfers but I do put the blame of wages at his feet, Wenger wants a more equal pay and has said years ago (when Dein was here) that having fair / kinda equal wages would be better.

In an idle moment, while staring at a set of solar system data, it occurred to me that it might be interesting to display a set of planetary surfaces on an equal footing, where the overall texture of these worlds was visible (although topography is probably a more -LSB-...]

Tim Flannery of the Australian Museum in Sydney, who led last month's expedition to Irian Jaya, the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea, thinks the bondegezou is a tenth species of tree kangaroo because it has broad, flat feet suited to tree climbing, legs of equal length and a skull that more closely resembles those of the Dendrolagus species than ground - dwelling kangaroos.

Perform the primordial Pythagorean prestidigitation (the sum of the squares of the two sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse), and you'll find that the one - foot - longer rope can be lifted high enough for even the most gigantic lineman to trundle under, more than 13 feet off the ground.

Here, we made the assumption of conditional independence for two reasons: (1) since our AN model had no correlated noise source, we wished to put the decoders from the three locations on an equal footing; (2) more importantly, ignoring noise correlations rendered inference far more tractable.

There are plenty of hybrids, too, though they usually lean more into one genre than the other, with Bone Tomahawk and the under - appreciated Survival Of The Dead being the rare examples to have an almost equal footing in both.

Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne are on equal footing for hysterical impact, both offering countless moments that has you returning for more.

Additionally, Mad's status in the household, essentially on equal footing with her former masters, offers more room for exploration that never gets the further attention it warrants.

Giving female characters equal footing in one of the most sprawling franchises in recent memory isn't just about better, more inclusive storytelling.

To reveal much more would give away some of the most genuine surprises of 2017, but suffice it to say that their relationship is forced into changes that eventually put Alma on an equal footing with the two seemingly indomitable siblings.

The rest of the cast is on equal footing: Allison Janney pulling off deadpan delivery with ease; Miranda Hart playing bubbly and adorable as Susan's desk mate; and Peter Serafinowicz doing some immaculate work with voice and reaction as an Italian agent who seems more interested in bedding Susan than aiding her in the mission.

Kelly Reichardt's slow - paced films aren't for everyone — sometimes they're not even for me — but when she taps into her characters» emotions and frailty, the results can be devastating, as in this tale of Montana women grappling with career and romantic setbacks, in a world that's constantly asking them to do and to be more just to get equal footing.

I specifically didn't want to separate men and women for this list — sometimes I think it's more interesting to put everyone on an equal footing.

Through our partnership with Harvard University, more students in Durham and in North Carolina will start the school year off on an equal footing with their peers.»

The trunk is average with space equal to the smaller mid-sixed Buick Regal at 15 cubic feet, but there is still the 60/40 folding seat for more space.

The reality was that the consuming public was simply not ready to see — and, more importantly, pay for — an Audi on an equal footing with BMW or Mercedes.

And where I could be on more or less equal footing out in the «wild,» due mostly to the diversity of readers, when I'm in an aquarium I'm limited to only what Amazon is willing to feed me.

Still it rose to an improbable height, the antlers seven feet beyond the eight - foot crossbar of the truck's pole rack — fifteen feet of animal stretched vertically, climbing into the heavens, and the humans working below, so tiny — but as they continued to carve away at it, it slowly came to seem less mythic and more steerlike; and the two old men working steadily upon it began to seem closer to its equal.

After the Wii U's tepid sales, you might be forgiven for thinking that Nintendo would back away from its quirkier tendencies, and come up with a console that competes more directly with Microsoft and Sony: a more conventional, powerful system capable of taking on the PS4 and Xbox One on an equal footing.

Whilst an iterative console does put Microsoft on equal footing with Sony, the PlayStation 4 install base currently stands at 40 million and so many gamers with consoles today would be more enticed by an evolved PlayStation 4 which is rumoured to be in development.

And unlike some bosses in the game, you can't trade blows with him, as he has one more hit point than a fully powered - up player (unless you're playing Super Mario Advance; then you can be on equal footing).

We then highlight a few examples of games that present female enemies as standard enemies who exist on more - or-less equal footing with their male counterparts.

The special move inputs are all highly simplified, the game mechanics function in a very obvious way, which leads to quick understanding, allowing players to get on equal footing more quickly.»