Sentences with phrase «much equal opportunity»

As a general rule, addictions are pretty much equal opportunity.

By Grant Stenzel, MS Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor As a general rule, addictions are pretty much equal opportunity.

Not exact matches

In the spirit of providing every American with an equal opportunity, it would be a much better policy to provide each individual with similar options for saving for retirement.

Today, we've got one more piece of research to add to the mix: we've now heard directly from our visible minority employees that they can contribute much more to our productivity challenge if we give them an equal opportunity.

Today, with much of the discourse on drug addiction controlled by medical bureaucrats, it is common to speak of addiction as an «equal - opportunity disease» that can «strike anyone.»

This creates a stratified society based on unequal social relations that fails to provide equal opportunities for every individual to maximize their potential,... Socialists argue that socialism would allow for wealth to be distributed based on how much one contributes to society, as opposed to how much capital one holds.

I am an equal - opportunity atheist — I find nothing special about christians so don't pay much attention to their particular book - of - silliness.

But professors are much safer these days speaking at other campuses than on their own because it's only on your own campus that students are going to file harassment charges and drag you before the Equal Opportunity Commission if you say one word that offends someone.

This year's theme, «Imagine Your Dreams and Ignite the Future,» will offer valuable strategies for women to develop their hospitality careers and maximize opportunities, and will cover a range of topics including social media, artisanal milling, GMOs, equal pay, advances in kitchen technology and much more.

Because the fact is right now, if someone's daughter wanted the opportunity to succeed as a professional athlete, she wouldn't get paid nearly as much, or have a shot at being as famous as a man equal to her ability.

In fact, the Big Ten is pretty much an equal - opportunity bowl loser.

We were founded as a Labour Party focused pressure group we felt that New Labour was failing to make the most of a historic opportunity to fundamentally transform the UK into a much more equal, democratic and sustainable society.

It's the centerpiece of high - gloss, highly sexualized espionage claptrap with an overlay of faux female empowerment: Dominika is pretty much an equal - opportunity scourge.

topics as off - limits, and as a self - described «equal - opportunity offender,» she is as much an acquired taste as caviar.

One can say — without much scholarly help at all — that racial segregation is undoubtedly harmful to the well - being of a multi-ethnic society that aspires to equal opportunity for all.

Much has changed since the fledgling Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), 14 New York City community school boards, and 23 individual parents and their children lodged the initial complaint charging the State of New York with denying «thousands of public school students in the City of New York their constitutional rights to equal educational opportunities.»

Guided by the new IQ tests (which did as much as any single thing to convince American educators that tracking was not only possible but preferable) and the rise of guidance and counseling programs (which could match young people with the curriculum track best suited to their «scientifically» determined individual profiles), America entered an era of democratic dumbing down: the equal opportunity to choose (or be chosen for) failing programs.

Nor do appeals to competition and equal opportunity hold much sway over the American public (see Figure 8).

Other highly gifted children attend regular classrooms, but instead of working at appropriate academic levels and having «an equal opportunity to struggle» (Morreale, 1993), spend much of the school day tutoring others in cooperative learning groups or reviewing curriculum that they mastered years ago on their own (Robinson, 1990; U. S. Department of Education, 1993).

The problem starts early: At least 10 percent of kindergartners and first graders miss that much school, absences that can stall their progress in reading and deny them an equal opportunity to learn.

That's why the fight for equal educational opportunity is about so much more than education — it is a fight for social justice.

Democrat Ted Lieu does not spend much time on the issue of education, but he does support federal funding of equal opportunities to low - income students.

Even if it is not a named authority, it may still chose to publish an equality scheme to demonstrate that is has complied with its general duty — in much the same way as an equal opportunities policy, though not compulsory, is currently used to demonstrate an awareness of an organisation's obligations under discrimination legislation.

Not only does this skill determine how much money you might have in savings, at your youngish age and in this economy, having money equals more opportunities and flexibility.

Many Catholics didn't know much about this practice until the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission conducted its National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.

The family's obituary adds: «Driven to succeed, she wanted to prove that given equal opportunities, a woman can accomplish as much as a man; she refused to let anything deter her from what she was capable of doing.