Sentences with phrase «of leveling the playing»

Sarah Kaplan, director of the Institute for Gender + the Economy at the University of Toronto, worries they push women to the sidelines, instead of levelling the playing field.

She nails the seemingly impossible task of leveling the playing field by imparting vital concepts in easy to digest bites.

«This is an historical moment as WBENC advances its mission of leveling the playing field for Women's Business Enterprises not only in the private sector, but now in the public sector.

The lack of a level playing field and unaffordable home prices mean «you can be cut out of the China dream,» said Joseph Fewsmith, director of the Center for the Study of Asia at Boston University, who focuses on Chinese politics.

The real issue with big government is its misuse and when it's used to target and help a specific group of people instead of leveling the playing field.

The Plant Based Foods Association launched last week with the goal of leveling the playing field so plant - based foods get the same consideration as meats when it comes to dietary guidelines, labeling and education.

This enables our operators to compete within the European marketplace on the basis of a level playing field.

And once you kind of level the playing field, then you can open up a conversation and then you can get away from all that stupid mommy wars stuff.

Lou Costa, who is the founder of the newly formed United States Strength Coalition and is also a strength and conditioning coach for high school football players focused on the importance of a level playing field and stressed that proper strength and conditioning along with a proper diet are the keys to athletic success.

On Rivers» general electoral anarchy: «Shocking cases of cold blooded killings and beheading, obstruction of votes, arson, voter intimidation, ballot snatching, missing result sheets, presenting of fake ballot papers, multiple thumb - printing, campaigning at polling units, compromise of ad - hoc staffs, absence of level playing environment, violence against media personnel and impunity were witnessed in different magnitude across the length and breadth of the state.

Creation of a level playing field to deliver security and fair pricing for energy.

Tinubu, at a meeting with the aspirants on Sunday night, which had major party stakeholders in attendance, demanded fair play from them even as he assured of a level playing ground in the contest of who succeeds the outgoing governor, Babatunde Fashola.

She is running for Public Advocate on a progressive platform of leveling the playing field for women and creating better opportunities for all New Yorkers.

But as Scientific American's editors noted in a 2006 editorial, net neutrality may still be the wisest course at a time when the existing balance of power is tilted so heavily toward a few broadband providers — a situation that leaves room for abuse in the absence of a level playing field.

The other way of levelling the playing field would be to remove tax from train company fuel, and that's not going to happen.

«The Kit Club grant program provides us with another way to fulfill our mission of leveling the playing field and inspiring all students to get excited about STEM,» says Jayme Burke, VP of Development for Science Buddies.

For all the celebration of female filmmakers and the start of a level playing field, the nominations didn't entirely reflect that lofty idea.

Anderson believes that education is a way of leveling the playing field.

«I think my favorite thing about the senior project is that it creates a sort of level playing field on which even a customarily underachieving student can excel,» added Camp.

Stories of leveling the playing field.

Government and schools should be working to create more of a level playing field of opportunity for young people to progress.»

Government and schools should be working to create more of a level playing field of opportunity for youngsters to progress.»

AB 2548 would have helped guarantee that our state's new system of accountability will provide parents, educators and community groups with the information they need to help increase equity and close achievement gaps that deprive the state's most vulnerable students of a level playing field.

For those would - be buyers, the program continues to fulfill its original mission of leveling the playing field for those who serve.

I feel like the expensive stocks have come back to earth and the really cheap stocks have had a run, so it's now more of a level playing field,» says Johnson.

Regression to the mean is nature's way of leveling the playing field, in almost every game, including investing.

«Pet specialty retailers need to emphasize that all pets deserve full preventative care — it's the best way of leveling the playing field to allow all pets the best opportunity for a long healthy life,» Lefebvre says.

And there's also the issue of a level playing field.

Unlike with traditional video games, where people play the same digitally created levels — Young Conker tailors each of the levels you play to your real world.

Sometimes the super move isn't available until I have almost defeated all of the enemies but it's still very annoying, as the enemies can use any attack anytime and that's unfair and as the previous games felt like more of a level playing feild.

I'm always in favour of a level playing field in any competition.

Some parts of levels play like a traditional horizontal side scrolling Shmup, while other parts play like a top down 3D on the rails Shmup.

You start prodding switches to raise and lower sections of floor, but soon end up blithely shooting dynamite to blow up massive rocks; eventually, you end up facing a set of levels played mostly in the dark.

The game is set in London and each of the levels we played had two sections, outdoors and indoors.

But that's not the case anymore and maybe there's more of a level playing field.

Notwithstanding all the cant of level playing fields and winner - picking, energy is not a game of football.

The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) is at the forefront of the drive for fair and equal treatment of Industrial Hemp and the instigation of a level playing field on which to compete with other natural resources and synthetics.

Whereas certain members of congress think it's fun to flex their letterhead, there are legal ways of leveling the playing field.

This type of insurance has the effect of leveling the playing field when an injured person is going to court against a well - financed insurance company.

What is often missing from this movie is the establishment of a level playing field.

For business, the main rule of law gripe is the «absence of a level playing field».

There's... The nice thing about the cloud is that it sort of levels the playing field.

The incredible thing about technology is that it has the effect of leveling the playing field. At one time there was this misguided notion that all attorneys that ended up working for the top law firms were somehow genetically superior to the rest of the legal world. As demonstrated by my favorite book in this last year Outliers, and this post The Outliers of the Law — the old sytem of selecting the best and brightest has no actual grounding in finding the true outliers. In this post by Jordan Furlong supports this idea that the «best and brightest» is a fallacy handed to those attorneys with the best pedigrees and economic situation rather than those most likely to be exceptional attorneys. Don't expect to see this changing any time soon.

Speaker, «David and Goliath: Realities of the Level Playing Field in International Litigation,» International Bar Association Annual Conference, Cancun, Mexico, October 2001

The Graduate Success project was one of a range of initiatives funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to investigate the current state of play in graduate recruitment and look at ways of levelling the playing field.

Other ways of leveling the playing field also exist, such as using consulting attorneys to explain the law, discuss options, and review draft agreements.

The illusion of a level playing field will be upheld, while the dirty secret of an emerging two tiered listing system remains hidden.

Not exact matches

To level the playing field, she recommends, «Sit on the same side of the table and say, «Come on over, I wanted to go over some things with you about our agenda.»

Social media can level the playing field between industry leaders and upstarts, between multinational corporation executives and small - business owners, making peers of all participants.

And if AT&T's objective is a level playing field and the widest possible distribution of Time Warner content, why overspend to buy Time Warner at all?