Sentences with phrase «on unequal»

As I examine in Chapter 2, the native title system in its current form ensures that negotiations occur on an unequal playing field.

Indigenous parties are on an unequal footing in negotiations with resource companies and governments.

Under the state's current law, parents enter child custody discussions on unequal footing.

The Court also commented on the unequal nature of the bargaining relationship between the IAP claimants and the form - filling companies, noting that the behaviour of the form - fillers in obtaining consent to the contingency agreements was «unconscionable.»

and More on Conscience - Shocking and the Rule on Unequal Splits of NFP — There is No Rule

While Ledbetter lost the battle, she won the war on unequal pay, with President Obama today signing into law the «Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,» which expands workers» rights to sue for unequal pay by relaxing the statute of limitations.

It's either a chauvinist fantasy or a commentary on unequal teenage relationships, but it's also a very early example of the dating sim genre, and the first project from programmer Yuji Naka who would go on to make Sonic the Hedgehog.

These one - sided acceptance clauses are another example of how standard publishing contracts can put authors on unequal footing from day one.

The GT rides on unequal - length upper and lower control arms with pushrod / rocker - activated torsion bar / coil springs controlled by electronically adjustable DSSV (Dynamic Suspensions Spool Valve) dampers from Multimatic.

The Coleman Report, mandated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was commissioned to shine a light on unequal educational opportunity across the country, and to expose differences between schools attended by black and white students, particularly in the South.

Many children enter kindergarten on unequal footing due to variability in pre-kindergarten experiences, and, once children enter kindergarten, variations in education content and quality.

This framework and reflection on unequal education leads to questions:

It also demonstrates that the present debate on unequal youth trajectories and the negative configurations of the transitions to adulthood among the poorest, can not be separated from a debate regarding Uruguay's distribution of welfare benefits, social transfers and social expenditure among different age groups.

Public television turns its cameras on education this month, airing specials that focus on unequal access to public education and the nationwide movement to make schooling more relevant to careers and jobs.

A finding of unequal resources oddly might not be based on unequal resources.

Parents would not want to go back to a system built on unequal access to schools, but they don't want to be denied options in the interest of maintaining quotas or forcing all children in a neighborhood to attend the same school whether it meets their needs or not.

«The comparisons were based on unequal treatments, without equivalent exposures for equivalent periods of time,» says John Britton, a toxicologist at the University of Nottingham, UK.

The legacy of communist times — in particular, the traditional underfunding of science and inefficient research system — puts Eastern European scientists on unequal footing with Western groups, Pál says.

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.

You do not have the right to demand special laws that discriminate on an unequal basis.

Not exact matches

Some ads list a preference for men, others try to lure male applicants by describing the attractiveness of future female co-workers, while many more place unfair and unequal demands on women applicants.

Even more remarkable was Russia's unequal trade with China on the South China Sea dispute and the conflict in Ukraine.

The government's findings put the city behind New York as the world's second-most unequal city in terms of income, according to the household income distribution report released on Friday by the Census and Statistics Department.

«If we set up a partnership on a handshake and agree to split the business 70 - 30, and we then have a falling out because you think you are working harder than I am and deserve a bigger share of the profits, the law may say we are 50 - 50 partners unless we can clearly document in writing, for example a signed Form 1065, our intent to create an unequal split,» Ennico says.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

Until 1791 Jews had unequal legal standing in Muslim and Christian countries and so had to rely on their wits, bribes or the enlightened self - interest of the governing majority.

But in addition to terrorism and military conflict, Americans still need to confront the growing reality — and awareness — that the global economy remains highly unequal, including over 2.8 billion people who survive on less than two U.S. dollars per day.

So I guess according to Limbaugh and his ilk's way of thinking The Christ was REALLY just a raving socialist / communist / marxist h $ ll bent on destroying the capitalistic, wildly unequal, and therefore «just», Roman Empire and the entire wealthy, powerful, and thus «successful», Jewish hierarchy because he was «jealous» of them and their «success» and so actually deserved to be put to death for it.

Competition being unequal, judgments based on its results are fallacious.

The principle of equality most profoundly means that we are equally dependent on the constitutive relationships that create us, however relatively unequal we are in our various strengths, including our ability to exemplify the fullness and concreteness of this kind of power.

Separate facilities are inherently unequal because of the psychological effects on the excluded group.

Faced with Catholic clericalism, Orthodox binding, European Protestant devastation, confrontations with old and new paganisms, the irrelevance of much of American Protestantism, and ominous signs that, by standards of human judgment, the church was unequal to its task, the editors relied on a secret for hope.

Friday's San - Francisco Examiner had announced that 19 groups — from the National Organization for Women and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice to the American Jewish Congress — would be on hand to «condemn what they claim is a central Promise Keepers» tenet: «That men and women are inherently unequal in their roles in the family and society.»»

The effects of the decline of marriage on children are dramatic, unequal, and deeply disturbing.

In other words, is it right to divide so tremendous a section of time into two such unequal parts: the generation of contemporary disciples on the one hand, and all the subsequent generations on the other?»

This is when opposing muscles on different sides of a joint produce unequal forces of tension, which can set the golfer up for an inefficient swing leading to injury.

Carlson's athletes came to the meeting prepared, pointing out the unequal representation of men's and women's sports on campus.

And that makes things feel very unequal, as Laura Carroll, author of several books on childfree living, writes in Fortune:

Campaigners gathered to call on assembled international government representatives to counter  «the toxic combination of poor social policies, unfair economic arrangements and bad politics that results in the unequal distribution of health - damaging experiences.»

On gift - giving occasions, there's seldom any excuse for unequal treatment, because a missing gift or a gift that is clearly inferior is an overt form of discrimination.

After an emergency c - section, the gift that's unequal to any other came on the most appropriate day.

For this, they took on the double work schedule, the glass ceiling, unequal wages and stressful days.

From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.

(Only ex-communist Bulgaria, Latvia and Rumania on the eastern periphery of the EU, and ex-Fascist Portugal and Spain on its southern periphery are more unequal than Britain.)

Trump may try to enact tariffs in the name of jobs, security, or unequal regulatory standards across nations, but it is not clear how he can create such specific trade measures, without harming a broader swathe of companies that export to the U.S. Finally, on December 5, a number of House Republicans publicly expressed opposition to such tariffs.

Question from Nan Wiliams «One hundred years on from the height of the Suffragette movement, it remains nothing short of scandalous that we have such unequal representation of women at the top of business and the top of politics.

The inevitable consequence of removing or weakening rights would be to make our society even more unequal between women and men and actually less productive as we'll miss out on women's skills at work.

But where is our Governor in the most unequal state in the country on income and equality?»

Opponents argue that it would perpetuate the unequal status of women since they would not be perceived to be competing on merit.

Trade unions and women's rights groups are calling on the government to take drastic action against unequal pay this morning.