In addition to many other important changes in the law, it would give equal weight to competing uses of the land and give federal managers a mandate to deny permits in areas of environmental concern.
Roughly stated, this principle counsels that, absent a reason to the contrary, we give equal priors to competing hypotheses.
Once a group has reached a reasonable level of representation in the student body, according to any one of several available measures, applicants from that group should be given an equal opportunity to compete on an equal basis with applicants from the general population.
Critics on the left complained that the third way reduced equality to an equal chance to compete in economies in which the rich were growing ever richer and the poor were increasingly disadvantaged.
The only barrier to their service has been an equal opportunity to compete.
Some statisticians and exercise physiologists say no one can answer the "what if" questions: What if women and men had received equal opportunities to compete?
Affirmative action was designed to give minority- and female-owned businesses an equal opportunity to compete for government contracts, while at the same time redressing centuries of discrimination.
At the time, no one believed he would win either nomination or election, but his public stature guaranteed him equal opportunity to compete seriously for the nomination.
His agent, Alan Nero, paused amid the glee to wonder what might have happened had Fred Wilpon, the Mets' owner, been given an equal chance to compete for Piniella's managerial services.
Small stations like his, he said, if royalty payments for Web-streaming remain affordable, could have equal footing to compete with the biggest stations in the world, and perhaps force them to become better.
Ramsey, bothered initially by the Redskins' signing of Brunell during the off-season, said that he only wanted an equal shot to compete and that Gibbs had divided the snaps fairly.
