Sentence examples for position of equality from inspiring English sources

Another reason Rawls gives for such a "thick" veil of ignorance is that it is designed to be a strict "position of equality" (TJ 12/11) that represents persons purely in their capacity as free and equal moral persons.

For the outspoken Walker, the time had arrived "for the Negro to storm the American stage and stake his claim to a position of equality".

Brandt was company president from 1924 to 1932, but Cohn was the driving force behind Columbia's rise to a position of equality with the other major Hollywood studios.

Throughout the debates Douglas attacked Lincoln as an abolitionist determined to bring North and South into conflict, and elevate the Negro to a position of equality with whites.

Still obsessive about his wife, but now in a position of equality with her which he had never achieved in France, our hero finally thinks up a suitable plan to hook his delicate fish.

He argues, with some plausibility, that Labour too often confuses fraternity with its own default position of equality and thus allows the state to encroach too far into civil society, which should be the domain of "self-creating" fraternity.

Nonetheless, elevating executives with business backgrounds to positions of equality with Ms. Pascal, the studio's creative chief, does raise questions about whether, under Mr. Harris's corporate oversight, creative decisions will be subsumed by business interests.

In the early pages, Auster writes that friendship offers "a position of absolute equality.

Beside Ahura Mazdā, Mithra is the most important deity of the ancient Iranian pantheon and may have even occupied a position of near equality with him.

Fennoman movement, in 19th-century Finnish history, nationalist movement that contributed to the development of the Finnish language and literature and achieved for Finnish a position of official equality with Swedish the language of the dominant minority.

Mantegna's friendly relations with several humanists, antiquarians, and university professors are a matter of record, and hence he may be seen as one of the earliest Renaissance artists to fraternize from a position of intellectual equality with such men.