He also has the support of many liberals for his moderate religious stance and his insistence on equal rights for all citizens, regardless of religion or gender.
Liberals' insistence on equal opportunity and impartiality, he said, has led to "egalitarian bureaucracy," a muddling of what had once been smooth-flowing business networks based on friendships.
report questions the basis of the Fed's insistence on equal treatment, noting that there were significant differences in the quality of the assets covered under the insurance agreements, and therefore the potential losses for each company were quite different.
While he has distinguished himself for public gestures that point to a life of humility and selfless charity paying his own hotel bill after his election as Pope, washing the feet of recovering drug addicts, and advocating a Church of the poor, for the poor he has moved with equal assertiveness in his insistence on shaking up traditional forms of Vatican governance.
Dr. King's legacy, not surprisingly, has been invoked to support both sides: his insistence on equal opportunity for black Americans as well as his exhortations to judge people not "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character".
Their insistence upon equal time in classrooms to present critiques against evolution as well as alternative hypotheses suggests that their arguments are in fact legitimate scientific alternatives.
The suggestion that insistence on equal opportunity might reduce the opportunities available to the worst off in this regard might prompt a broader rejection of equal opportunity principles.
And any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial.
I wouldn't mind Remnick (and Secretary of State Clinton among many others) getting so exercised about Khodorkovsky, if I thought there were a larger principle - the insistence of equal application of justice, regardless of political connection or affiliation - at stake in their criticisms.
His book details how Union insistence on the equal status of black soldiers blocked prisoner exchanges, leading to thousands of avoidable deaths in miserable camps on both sides.
