That would amount to an acknowledgment that the marriages are of equal standing with opposite-sex marriages.
Le Gris was then knighted in order that he and Carrouges be of equal standing during the fight.
At the level of the central party leadership this means that, for instance, all members of the Politburo Standing Committee are of equal standing (each member having only one vote).
So eventually I told my boss that one of two things needed to happen for us to even begin creating an inclusive space for people of color with the organization: 1) Hire at least one person of color who was of equal position to white folks within the organization, or 2) give me a new title so that I, as a person of color, would be of equal standing to others in the organization.
That nominee must be of equal standing with Mr Mbeki and people like Mr Chissano and Mr Kufuor come to mind at this stage.
Settlement there is of long standing.
As mentioned earlier Bing now forms the fourth quadrant of Microsoft's multi-paned logo; it's been given equal standing with Windows, Office and Xbox, and its not just being integrated with these services, its being offered as a platform of equal standing.
Any law that would favor one or the other's freedom, whether positive or negative, was playing favorites between claims of equal standing.
"They have to find a deal of equal standing, that is the critical issue," said Sean Hamil, an academic at the University of London's Birkbeck Sports Business Center.
Of course, people of equal standing can be unequally interested in a good but, in any sizeable group, it is most unlikely that one individual's interest in a good that is public to the group will be so special and so disproportionate that that individual will have, uniquely, a right to the good as a good for the group as a whole.
Substantive fairness in testing requires that the score interpretation and any test-based decision rule be reasonable and appropriate and 'that examinees of equal standing with respect to the construct the test is intended to measure should on average earn the same test score, irrespective of group membership'(AERA et al. 1999, p. 74).
