In a situation of rough "equality of ability" and scarcity of goods, we will naturally feel an "equality of hope" for attaining our ends.
As you know, the adoption of the Roadmap for Gender Equality in 2006 underlined the Union's full commitment to do its utmost to make progress towards a situation of real equality between men and women.
War is not a place of equality".
In this ideal situation, cross-sample violations of equality of factor loadings, equality of residual variances, and equality of observed item means hardly affected the power to detect genetic variants (Figure 5b d).
Instead, as Bernard Fall, one of the greatest chroniclers of the Vietnam conflicts, put it, their "totally stalemated situation required the French to create a military situation that would permit cease-fire negotiations on a basis of equality with the enemy".
If the indicator being considered is a desirable one (e.g. immunization coverage), a concentration curve that lies above the diagonal (line of equality) shows inequity favouring the poor – a situation that is desirable from the equity point of view.
The report identified two further issues for UNICEF: the situation of the Roma children and gender equality.
"The principle of equality prohibits neither that the legislature regulate differing situations in differing manners, nor that it depart from equality for reasons of general interest," the decision said.
The WMW test is thus not a reliable test of equality of distributions as it would have poor power in many situations.
By contrast, arguments of equality bite where the court in the original case was confronted with a situation where the correct outcome was indeterminate, i.e., where more than one outcome was possible in light of the legally permissible arguments.
