Sentence examples for standards of equal from inspiring English sources

Miller thinks that this makes sense, because liberal democracies must uphold "quite demanding standards of equal treatment for all who reside within their borders".

Eliminating that unfair system will require a multipronged effort — to add more states to the list of 13 that permit same-sex marriage and to challenge remaining state laws that violate the standards of equal protection as the Defense of Marriage Act did.

"With LGBTQ soldiers and their families proudly serving our nation, the Army is moving towards the highest standards of equal opportunity.

If they rule that California's ballots do not violate equal protection, they will confirm critics' views that they applied a higher standard of equal protection for George Bush.

But given the complexities of real life, Ms. Williams continued, a woman also "holds her husband to the standard of equal parenting".

The Fair Pay Act changes the rules surrounding equal pay from a standard of "equal work" to one of "substantially similar" work, closing what legislators described as a loophole that made it difficult for women to prove pay discrimination.

Advocates for same-sex marriage said the ruling clearly did not apply to civil unions and therefore, to meet the standard of equal protection that the state's court set in 2006, New Jersey must allow marriage, not just civil unions.

It has long been clear that civil unions under New Jersey law — a status that relegates same-sex couples to a category inferior to marriage — fails to meet the standard of equal rights for same-sex couples established by the New Jersey Supreme Court in a 2006 decision.

And even with the proviso that we need benefit only those with whom we actually interact, the standard of equal care for others would seem to carry with it impossibly high practical demands.

Shevchenko told me that it was the right moment for Ukraine to establish a standard of equal rights now that it had voted in a pro-European government.

The legislation goes a step further than existing fair pay regulations by establishing the standard of equal pay for "substantially similar work" rather than "equal work".