Sentence examples for equates right from inspiring English sources

Others find Holmes to have advocated a bleak and noxious account of law that equates right with might.

The altruistic ethics equates right action with self-sacrifice for the sake of others' good and immorality with "selfishness," while saying nothing about the standard of the good ("Introduction," 1964a, iii; 1974).

They explicitly equate right with might, and exclude considerations of justice from foreign affairs.

Yet they keep their heads down, aware that, even though their forebears were citizens of the region long before the Muslims, the latter increasingly – at least in some parts – equate rights with religious allegiance.

In fact the mind equates "being right" with surviving.

If he wants to be better than the other Billy Hamilton, he needs to record 806 more stolen bases in his career, which equates to right around 54 stolen bases per season for the next 15 years.

I want to believe in the Wisconsin depicted by the contributors to It Started in Wisconsin, but I'm nagged by a feeling that it's informed by an unhelpful vintage left-wing attitude that equates being right with being entitled and even likely to prevail.

She also equates gun rights with women's rights, and abortion in particular.

A citizen who equates abortion rights with women's rights is never going to be sold on pro-life legislation, not just because he doesn't believe in it, but because he's looking out for his brothers and sisters who don't know any better.

The largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, sees marriage as exclusively reserved for one man and one woman and actively rejects equating gay rights with civil rights.

His defenders, of course, raise the spectre of free speech: equating the right to speak without fear of state retribution with the right to speak without fear of being kicked off the state broadcaster.