Sentence examples for equal yet from inspiring English sources

We want women to be equal yet we continue to implement policies that stop that.

It proclaimed that all men were created equal, yet was suffused by racial prejudice.

Projects such as everydaysexism.com (a website that allows women to share details of sexist incidents) are "making sexism visible [and] opening people's eyes to the fact that we're not equal yet", she says.

Such programmes raise many questions, not least because often autistic people seek the right to be valued as equal, yet divergent, members of society, rejecting the notion of disability.

I longed to be her equal, yet if something I said made her smile because I suddenly sounded like an old man or a little kid I was happy to have earned the extra affection.

From an educational point of view, it is a perverse lesson that we are teaching children – saying everyone is equal, yet then separating them by faith groups and thereby creating an "us and them" culture.

She said: "The alienation that women feel has profound consequences for younger generations who are taught that Islam treats both men and women as spiritual equals, yet the practice within mosques contradicts the principles".

Most philosophers think not, understanding friendship to be essentially a relationship among equals; yet some philosophers (such as Friedman 1989; Rorty 1986/1993; Badhwar 1987) explicitly intend their accounts of friendship to include parent-child relationships, perhaps through the influence of the historical notion of philia.

His movement, full of contradictions, confronted caste restrictions and encouraged women to fight as equals, yet allowed no political freedom, eliminated rivals, and demanded absolute loyalty down to the cyanide capsules worn by each fighter to be swallowed in the event of capture.

China seems to want it both ways -- it plays geopolitical power games as a force to be reckoned with among equals, yet declines to shoulder the burdens of a great power, or even demands to be afforded the benefits due to an underdeveloped charity case.

Impatient fem— WHY DON'T WE HAVE EQUAL PAY YET?? ** Knock, knock!